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V3 hidden expert services  
  
With lots of men and women wondering why all the shorter v2 concealed company area names stopped functioning, we will attempt to explain this in this short but detailed short article.  
  
So what does an .onion identify do?  
  
It will permit you hook up to a hidden site on the Tor community. But in purchase for that to perform, the hidden web site has to authenticate possession of the concealed web-sites domain to the Tor network.  
  
Now the issue with the brief area names was, that the cryptographic strength of the fundamental math behind them was not robust plenty of.  
  
The long domain names have a more intricate cryptography at the rear of them and are as a result a lot more secure and harder to spoof.  
  
The technological innovation of the Tor network also obtained upgraded and servers managing the v3 domains have a better DDOS protection and other gains.  
  
The Tor undertaking would seem to go on to boost the hidden website community, right after years of not doing much to assist admins of hidden providers to mitigate DDOS attacks or deanonymization tries.  
  
We switched to a new server all over again  
  
As you could have seen, in the recent months the website of the Hidden Wiki was not as stable as it applied to be.  
  
We have mitigated this and moved the website to a new server with extra means and a lot quicker community.  
  
We hope the downtime we had did not induce way too a great deal hassle for any individual.  
  
And we will make guaranteed that in the potential we maintain the internet site as steady as it was in the past.  
  
We would like to thank our company for  
Some other information about hyperlinks on the Concealed Wiki  
  
The dim world wide web is continuously shifting, and with it the Concealed Wiki.  
  
We consequently made the decision to drop the aged v2 .onion web pages from the most important website page.  
  
Considering that the last Tor browser update, the outdated v2 web pages are no extended supported and will end performing.  
  
So it helps make no feeling to checklist them anymore.  
  
We will instead increase additional new hidden providers in the long run, so look at again from time to time.