The document provides an overview of the darknet, describing its definition, evolution, and features, including various types such as friend-to-friend networks and anonymity networks like Tor. It discusses the history of darknet developments from the 1970s to present, highlighting both advantages, such as privacy and freedom, and disadvantages, including illegal activities. The presentation concludes with reflections on the future of the darknet and its implications.

1. English Presentation
Ido Segal | Joseph Shmuel
Adva Rozenberg | Dvir Barel

2. Introduction
 What is darknet?
 Evolution of darknet
 Features of darknet
 Conclusions

3. What is the darknet?
 An overlay network
 For accessing
 Authentication
 Configurations
 Uses specific software(tor, freenet, etc.)
 often using non-standard communications
protocols and ports

4. What is the darknet?
 Types
 Friend-to-friend like freenet (for file sharing
like in peer-to-peer)
 Anonymity networks like TOR via an
anonymized series of connections

5. The Onion Router (TOR)
 Onion Routing (TOR) is a toolset for a wide range
of organizations and people that want to improve
their safety and security on the Internet.

6. How Onion Routing Works
 Onion Routing instead of making a connection directly to a
destination machine, builds an anonymous connection(route) through
several other Onion Routers to the destination. Each Onion Router
can only identify adjacent Onion Routers along the route. Before
sending data over an anonymous connection, Onion Router first
makes an Onion. An onion is a special data structure where the
actual data to be travelled on the network is placed at its center
and different encrypted layers are surrounded by it.

7. Evolution of darknet
 1970 - term “darknet” introduced
 1995 - development began on ”Onion Routing”
 2002 - US Naval Research Lab releases ONR v2 (aka TOR)
 2002 - Freenode is released
 2004 - Hidden Services introduced: Hidden wiki setup
 2013 - freenode project center shutdown, however freenode
continues to operate
 2014 - Sponsors include US dept. of State, Radio free Asia,
The Four Foundation, Google, EFF, 4300 individuals
 2018 - Today ,the darknet counts 2200 active dark websites

8. GOOD OR BAD?

9. Disadvantages
 Drugs
 Weapons
 Pornography
 Trafficking
 Child Labor
 Illegal matters
 Terrorists

10. Enforcement
 The police use agencies to capture the perpetrators.
 The FBI has blocked 410 sites last year.

11. Advantages
 Privacy
 Untraceable
 No Filters
 Freedom
 Independence
 New Marketing

12. The creations of the darknet
 Bit Coins
 Anonymous virtual Markets
 WikiLeaks
 Arab spring

13. Summary
 So we discussed about:
 What is Darknet
 Who invented the Darknet?
 Why would people use it?
 Where do we go from here?

14. Questions?