These circuits are anonymized circuits, so the server does not reveal the service location to the introduction points.
The onion service will hide and protect itself behind the Tor network by only allowing access through three introduction points that it connects to through a two-hop Tor circuit. Now that the introduction points are set up, we need to create a way for clients to be able to find them. For this reason, the onion service assembles an onion service descriptor , containing a list of its introduction points and 'authentication keys' , and signs this descriptor with the onion service's identity private key.
The identity private key used here is the private part of the public key that is encoded in the onion service address. The onion service upload that signed descriptor to a distributed hash table , which is part of the Tor network, so that clients can also get it. It uses an anonymized Tor circuit to do this upload so that it does not reveal its location. Say you want to anonymously send some tax fraud data to your local newspaper through its SecureDrop. You find the onion address for the newspaper's SecureDrop from a public website or friend.
All the previous steps were just set up for the onion service so that it's reachable by clients. Now let's fast-forward to the point where an actual client wants to visit the service. In this case, the client has the onion address of SecureDrop and want to visit it, so they connect to the service with Tor Browser. Now the next thing that needs to happen is that the client goes to the distributed hash table from Step 2 and ask for the signed descriptor of SecureDrop's onion service.
When the client receives the signed descriptor, they verify the signature of the descriptor using the public key that is encoded in the onion address. This provides the end-to-end authentication security property, since we are now sure that this descriptor could only be produced by that onion service and no one else. And inside the descriptor, there are the introduction points that allow the client to introduce themselves to SecureDrop's onion service.
Before the introduction takes place, the client in this case, you picks a Tor relay and establishes a circuit to it.
The client asks the relay to become their rendezvous point and give it an 'one-time secret' that will be used as part of the rendezvous procedure.
The introduction point passes your details secret string and rendezvous address on to the onion service, which runs multiple verification processes to decide whether you're trustworthy or not. The onion service connects to the rendezvous point through an anonymized circuit and sends the 'one-time secret' to it. The rendezvous point makes one final verification to match the secret strings from you and service the latter also comes from you but has been relayed through the service.
The rendezvous point simply relays end-to-end encrypted messages from client to service and vice versa. In general, the complete connection between client and onion service consists of 6 relays: 3 of them were picked by the client, with the third being the rendezvous point, and the other 3 were picked by the onion service.
This provides location hiding to this connection. Finally, using the rendezvous point, a Tor circuit is formed between you and your newspaper's SecureDrop onion service.
This was just a high-level overview of the Tor onion services protocol. Here are some more resources if you want to learn more:. Tor is a free and open source Internet communication software download filed under vpn and proxy software and made available by Tor Project for Windows. Tor or The Onion Router is a free software for enabling online anonymity. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer network consisting of more than four thousand relays to conceal a user's location or usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis.
Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace Internet activity, including 'visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages, and other communication forms', back to the user and is intended to protect the personal privacy of users, as well as their freedom and ability to conduct confidential business by keeping their internet activities from being monitored. After downloading the YouTube video to your PC or laptop, you can now enjoy the video freely when there is no Internet connection or edit the video as you want to.
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