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Web is a primary and essential service to share information among users and organizations at present all over the world. Despite the current significance of such a kind of traffic on the Internet, the so-called Surface Web traffic has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Roberto Magán-Carrión , Alberto Abellán-Galera , Gabriel Maciá-Fernández , Pedro García-Teodoro

In this paper, we analyze the topology and the content found on the "darknet", the set of websites accessible via Tor. We created a darknet spider and crawled the darknet starting from a bootstrap list by recursively following links. We…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Georgia Avarikioti , Roman Brunner , Aggelos Kiayias , Roger Wattenhofer , Dionysis Zindros

Tor is among most well-known dark net in the world. It has noble uses, including as a platform for free speech and information dissemination under the guise of true anonymity, but may be culturally better known as a conduit for criminal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Mahdieh Zabihimayvan , Reza Sadeghi , Derek Doran , Mehdi Allahyari

Tor and I2P are well-known anonymity networks used by many individuals to protect their online privacy and anonymity. Tor's centralized directory services facilitate the understanding of the Tor network, as well as the measurement and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Nguyen Phong Hoang , Panagiotis Kintis , Manos Antonakakis , Michalis Polychronakis

Tor is one of the most well-known networks that protects the identity of both content providers and their clients against any tracking or tracing on the Internet. So far, most research attention has been focused on investigating the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Mahdieh Zabihimayvan , Derek Doran

Privacy of users in P2P networks goes far beyond their current usage and is a fundamental requirement to the adoption of P2P protocols for legal usage. In a climate of cold war between these users and anti-piracy groups, more and more users…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-12 Pere Manils , Chaabane Abdelberri , Stevens Le Blond , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Claude Castelluccia , Arnaud Legout , Walid Dabbous

Tor hidden services allow running Internet services while protecting the location of the servers. Their main purpose is to enable freedom of speech even in situations in which powerful adversaries try to suppress it. However, providing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Alex Biryukov , Ivan Pustogarov , Fabrice Thill , Ralf-Philipp Weinmann

Tor is an anonymity network that allows offering and accessing various kinds of resources, known as hidden services, while guaranteeing sender and receiver anonymity. The Tor web is the set of web resources that exist on the Tor network,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Massimo Bernaschi , Alessandro Celestini , Marco Cianfriglia , Stefano Guarino , Flavio Lombardi , Enrico Mastrostefano

The availability of sophisticated technologies and methods of perpetrating criminogenic activities in the cyberspace is a pertinent societal problem. Darknet is an encrypted network technology that uses the internet infrastructure and can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Victor Adewopo , Bilal Gonen , Said Varlioglu , Murat Ozer

Anonymity services have seen high growth rates with increased usage in the past few years. Among various services, Tor is one of the most popular peer-to-peer anonymizing service. In this survey paper, we summarize, analyze, classify and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Saad Saleh , Junaid Qadir , Muhammad U. Ilyas

Anonymity networks are becoming increasingly popular in today's online world as more users attempt to safeguard their online privacy. Tor is currently the most popular anonymity network in use and provides anonymity to both users and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Ishan Karunanayake , Nadeem Ahmed , Robert Malaney , Rafiqul Islam , Sanjay Jha

The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a peer-to-peer anonymous overlay network whose architecture includes a structurally distinct sublayer not characterized in existing security literature. We term this sublayer the Exclusive Network:…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Siddique Abubakr Muntaka , Jacques Bou Abdo

The non-indexed parts of the Internet (the Darknet) have become a haven for both legal and illegal anonymous activity. Given the magnitude of these networks, scalably monitoring their activity necessarily relies on automated tools, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Leshem Choshen , Dan Eldad , Daniel Hershcovich , Elior Sulem , Omri Abend

Darknet marketplaces, accessible through, Tor are where users can buy illicit goods, and learn to hide from law enforcement. We surveyed the advice on these markets and found valid security advice mixed up with paranoid threat models and a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Andrew C. Dwyer , Joseph Hallett , Claudia Peersman , Matthew Edwards , Brittany I. Davidson , Awais Rashid

The Onion Router (Tor) is a controversial network whose utility is constantly under scrutiny. On the one hand, it allows for anonymous interaction and cooperation of users seeking untraceable navigation on the Internet. This freedom also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Alfonso Rodriguez Barredo-Valenzuela , Sergio Pastrana Portillo , Guillermo Suarez-Tangil

This article describes a novel dataset that maps the network layer of the Invisible Internet Project (I2P). The data was collected using SWARM-I2P framework, which deployed I2P routers as a network of mapping agents that gather information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Siddique Abubakr Muntaka , Jacques Bou Abdo , Kemi Akanbi , Sunkanmi Oluwadare , Faiza Hussein , Oliver Kornyo , Michael Asante

Tor is a popular low-latency anonymity network. However, Tor does not protect against the exploitation of an insecure application to reveal the IP address of, or trace, a TCP stream. In addition, because of the linkability of Tor streams…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-03-09 Stevens Le Blond , Pere Manils , Chaabane Abdelberi , Mohamed Ali Dali Kaafar , Claude Castelluccia , Arnaud Legout , Walid Dabbous

Darknet technology such as Tor has been used by various threat actors for organising illegal activities and data exfiltration. As such, there is a case for organisations to block such traffic, or to try and identify when it is used and for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Hamish Haughey , Gregory Epiphaniou , Haider Al-Khateeb , Ali Dehghantanha

Ever since the introduction of the internet, it has been void of any privacy. The majority of internet traffic currently is and always has been unencrypted. A number of anonymous communication overlay networks exist whose aim it is to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Rolf Jagerman , Wendo Sabée , Laurens Versluis , Martijn de Vos , Johan Pouwelse

The deep and darkweb (d2web) refers to limited access web sites that require registration, authentication, or more complex encryption protocols to access them. These web sites serve as hubs for a variety of illicit activities: to trade…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Nazgol Tavabi , Nathan Bartley , Andrés Abeliuk , Sandeep Soni , Emilio Ferrara , Kristina Lerman
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