Deploying a Tor Hidden Service with DigitalOcean

Deploying a Tor Hidden Service with DigitalOcean A quick primer on Tor hidden services The Tor protocol picks 3 onion routers at random, builds circuits to them, treating them as introduction (or contact) points; since this is a circuit, there is no direct connection, so no IP addresses are shared, just public keys. These public keys work toward “shaking hands” at a rendezvous point. If the handshake happens, the rendezvous point connects Alice’s and Bob’s circuits, and then they can communicate anonymously. [Read More]