Re: [tor-talk] Tor as ecommerce platform

[Maxim Kammerer <mk@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Andreas Krey <a.krey@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Erm, how *do* you 'explore' hidden services?

The Hidden Wiki [1] is (or are, there have been several alternates) a
good start. It used to be down quite often after some kids tried to
play in vigilantism on Tor network, but seems quite stable at present.
However, this won't give you a good idea of what resources are
actually popular. In my first reply in this thread I suggested that
relays can be patched to get .onion access statistics (referring to
rendezvous points), but after reviewing the rendezvous specification
[2] I need to admit that it's not possible — apparently, one would
need to gather statistics at introduction points (waiting until a
relay is chosen as an IP for a given hidden service), which would be
extremely slow, and would not provide bandwidth statistics.

[1] http://kpvz7ki2v5agwt35.onion/wiki/
[2] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=rend-spec.txt

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Maxim Kammerer
Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte
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