Tor is killing off all v2 domains on October 15th, 2021

https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline

by superkuh • 5 years ago

34 13 5 years ago

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superkuh4• 5 years ago

This means all the links between and to onion sites, all the search engine rankings, all the communities, and access to them will go up in a puff of smoke on that date.

Some may come back with new domains that are different from the old. But the web between them will be gone.

theamk• 5 years ago

Well, that's what happens when you use network systems designed and maintained by a single organization.

TOR, Signal or Ethereum - you better hope that network owners don't do something to break your stuff.

labawi2• 5 years ago

I don't see why they couldn't migrate to the newer version in what seems a reasonable timeframe.

Stated reason for v2 retirement: "Onion service v2 uses RSA1024 and 80 bit SHA1 (truncated) addresses. It also still uses the TAP [2] handshake .."

Seems like a typical security upgrade of something that should have been done a long time ago.

implying• 5 years ago

v2 domains were just the maximum length that you could reasonably memorize them, perfect for privacy. There's no chance for memorizing a v3 domain, so you'll have to write them down or persist them in some way. Having a post-it of a whistleblowing site's URL is never great.

Tor is killing off all v2 domains on October 15th, 2021

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