1. DARKNET

2. Security through layers of encrypted communication between nodes.
tor - the onion router
U.S. Navy
Communications
Data Transmission
Security through layers of encrypted communication between nodes.

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5. Access Through Tor ● “The onion router” ● Similar to a Firefox browser
● Simple, anyone can get it
● Host machine is untraceable
○ Can stay anonymous
○ Can access Darknet
○ Can see .onion extensions

9. Alternative Access with I2P
● The “Invisible Internet Project”
● Messages encrypted
● Outbound and Inbound tunnels
○ Data exchange
● 1st query must be made to I2P network’s “database”
○ Acts like a distributed hash table

10. Access to The Silk Road and Knowledge
● Access to Darknet = Access to Information
○ Onions
○ Government Secrets
○ Conspiracy Theories
● The Silk Road (Market)
○ Weapons and drugs sold
○ 60,000 visits per day
○ $1.9 million in sales every month
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11. Darknet Usage 40,000 sites (fraction of all content…)
telegraph.co.uk, 22 April 2014

12. Anonymity? Tor designed to hide identity Surface internet browsing
Doesn’t protect against vulnerabilities
Server
Anonymous
Showboating?
User’s computers
Compromise = exposure
Traps?
Impossible to be completely anonymous online!

13. Alternatives Lots of reasons not to use Darknet Lavabit Silent Circle
Court order
Silent Circle
Silent Mail
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14. Takeaways Created by the US gov’t Use the Onion Never anonymous
Secure communications
Fraction of the Deep Web
Use the Onion
Tor/I2P
Illegal marketplace
Never anonymous
Restoring purpose

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