![]() ![]() My answer to the question “Is your network filtered and you can’t open ports on your firewall?”, is a huge YES, and I bet most people’s is too. What really sold me to onion services, apart from the security, privacy and anonymity aspects, were the NAT punching capabilities built into the protocol. They only establish outgoing connections. Onion services don’t need open ports because they punch through NAT. Is your network filtered and you can’t open ports on your firewall? This could happen if you are in a university campus, an office, an airport, or pretty much anywhere. This is like getting strong SSL/HTTPS for free. Onion service traffic is encrypted from the client to the onion host. Usually, reaching a website does not mean that a man-in-the-middle did not reroute to some other location (e.g. No impersonation is possible, which is generally not the case. ![]() When a user visits a particular onion, they know that the content they are seeing can only come from that particular onion. Onion services are an overlay network on top of TCP/IP, so in some sense, IP addresses are not even meaningful to onion services: they are not even used in the protocol. ![]() An onion service’s IP address is protected. Tor Project | How do onion services work?Īccording to Tor Project’s article, the main benefits of onion services are:.It wasn’t until recently that I decided to learn more about them, after reading a post in Jan-Lukas Else’s blog (which I’m subscribed to via RSS and enjoy reading) mentioning the awesomeness of Onion Services and linking to a nice explanation in Tor Project’s official website: I had heard about Tor Hidden Services and even used some a long time ago, but they never really caught my attention, especially since Tor already provides a lot of anonymity and security. Tor Hidden Services are awesome March 23, 2021 Tor Hidden Services are awesome Ávalos' Indie Blog ![]()
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