Introduction to TOR, and its role in Web Anonymity and Dark Web

1. TOR - The Onion Router
By Japneet Singh

2. Agenda
• What’s TOR and how it works
• Using TOR for anonymity
• Accessing Dark web using TOR

3. What’s TOR
• Proxy software which uses TOR network for concealing a web user’s
identity
• TOR network is a worldwide overlay network maintained by
volunteers
• Mostly used via TOR browser, but other software exist too!

4. How TOR works

5. How TOR works

6. Anonymity using TOR

7. TOR and HTTPS

8. TOR and HTTPS

9. TOR and HTTPS

10. How hackers achieve anonymity?

11. Dark web

12. What is dark web?
• Web vs Deep web vs Dark web
• One subset is .onion sites hosted on TOR, potentially others exist too
• Due to TOR’s anonymity network, both client and server identity are
hidden
• Lot of illegal websites

13. Web, Deep web and Dark web

14. Exploring Dark web
• Lot of underground stuff!
• Drugs
• Guns
• Hacking services
• Hitman services
• Fake currency
• Stolen cards
• Fake IDs like passports
• …

15. Demo

16. References
• https://www.torproject.org/
• https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https
• https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-being-Avoiding-Hacking-
ebook/dp/B071RSW5M4/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAcGiLL4OZU