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V3 hidden services

With many people wondering why all the short v2 hidden service domain names stopped working, we will try to explain this in this short but comprehensive article.

So what does an .onion name do?

It will let you connect to a hidden site on the Tor network. But in order for that to work, the hidden site has to authenticate ownership of the hidden sites domain to the Tor network.

Now the problem with the short domain names was, that the cryptographic strength of the underlying math behind them was not strong enough.

The long domain names have a more complex cryptography behind them and are therefore more secure and harder to spoof.

The technology of the Tor network also got upgraded and servers running the v3 domains have a better DDOS protection and other benefits.

The Tor project seems to continue to improve the hidden site network, after years of not doing much to help admins of hidden services to mitigate DDOS attacks or deanonymization attempts.

We switched to a new server again

As you may have noticed, in the recent weeks the website of the Hidden Wiki was not as stable as it used to be.

We have mitigated this and moved the website to a new server with more resources and faster network.

We hope the downtime we had did not cause too much trouble for anyone.

And we will make sure that in the future we keep the site as stable as it was in the past.

We would like to thank our provider for

Some other news about links on the Hidden Wiki

The dark web is constantly changing, and with it the Hidden Wiki.

We therefore decided to drop the old v2 .onion sites from the main page.

Since the last Tor browser update, the old v2 sites are no longer supported and will stop working.

So it makes no sense to list them anymore.

We will instead add more new hidden services in the future, so check back from time to time.

We have updated the hidden wiki with new v3 .onion links.
Because the old type of links will no longer be supported by the Tor project soon.

Not all .onion websites have changed their URL to the new version yet, so we will continue to add them as soon as they do change their domain.

Why will the old links no longer be supported?

The Tor project will drop support for the old short hidden service domain names because the cryptographic strength of those old domains is no longer good enough, with super computers almost being able to regenerate .onion domains of other people.

For this reason it was time to change to longer keys and longer domain names, which will be secure for the next 50 or 100 years.

What do i have to do?

To browse to new .onion links, all you have to do is use one of the recent versions of the Tor browser.

If you did not update your Tor browser for a very long time, then it is now maybe a good time to make an update.

Otherwise there is nothing you will have to do.

The Hidden Wiki

We at the hidden wiki will continue to provide working .onion links, even after the change to the new style of domain names by the Tor project.

And we will try to provide only the most legit website links, which have a great reputation in the community.

Because other hidden wiki sites sometimes lack this kind of care when it comes to providing those links. So always becareful when trusting other sites listing .onion links, they could be fake.

We hope to provide something that has value to people looking to browse the dark web. If you need more links you can check one of the other link lists we list on top of the hidden wiki.