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darknet wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 terminology 2 origins toggle origins subsection 2 1 sub cultures 3 uses 4 software toggle software subsection 4 1 active 4 2 no longer supported 4 3 defunct 5 see also 6 references toggle the table of contents darknet 37 languages العربية azərbaycanca беларуская català čeština deutsch ελληνικά esperanto español eesti euskara فارسی français עברית हिन्दी հայերեն bahasa indonesia italiano 日本語 한국어 latviešu മലയാളം bahasa melayu norsk bokmål português română русский slovenščina српски srpski svenska türkçe українська اردو oʻzbekcha ўзбекча tiếng việt 粵語 中文 edit links article talk english read view source view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read view source view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia private network of connections between trusted peers this article is about network technology for other uses see darknet disambiguation for websites that exist on top of this technology see dark web surface web in relation to deep web and dark web a darknet or dark net is an overlay network within the internet that can only be accessed with specific software configurations or authorization 1 and often uses a unique customized communication protocol two typical darknet types are social networks 2 usually used for file hosting with a peer to peer connection 3 and anonymity proxy networks such as tor via an anonymized series of connections 4 the term darknet was popularized by major news outlets and was associated with tor onion services when the infamous drug bazaar silk road used it 5 despite the terminology being unofficial technology such as tor i2p and hyphanet are intended to defend digital rights by providing security anonymity or censorship resistance and are used for both illegal and legitimate reasons anonymous communication between whistle blowers activists journalists and news organisations is also facilitated by darknets through use of applications such as securedrop 6 terminology euler diagram of the deep web the dark web and the darknet the term originally described computers on arpanet that were hidden programmed to receive messages but not respond to or acknowledge anything thus remaining invisible and in the dark 7 since arpanet the usage of dark net has expanded to include friend to friend networks usually used for file sharing with a peer to peer connection and privacy networks such as tor 8 9 the reciprocal term for a darknet is a clearnet or the surface web when referring to content indexable by search engines 10 the term darknet is often used interchangeably with dark web because of the quantity of hidden services on tor s darknet additionally the term is often inaccurately used interchangeably with the deep web because of tor s history as a platform that could not be search indexed mixing uses of both these terms has been described as inaccurate with some commentators recommending the terms be used in distinct fashions 11 12 13 origins darknet was coined in the 1970s to designate networks isolated from arpanet the government founded military academical network which evolved into the internet for security purposes 7 darknet addresses could receive data from arpanet but did not appear in the network lists and would not answer pings or other inquiries the term gained public acceptance following publication of the darknet and the future of content distribution a 2002 paper by peter biddle paul england marcus peinado and bryan willman four employees of microsoft who argued the presence of the darknet was the primary hindrance to the development of workable digital rights management drm technologies and made copyright infringement inevitable 14 this paper described darknet more generally as any type of parallel network that is encrypted or requires a specific protocol to allow a user to connect to it 1 sub cultures journalist j d lasica in his 2005 book darknet hollywood s war against the digital generation described the darknet s reach encompassing file sharing networks 15 subsequently in 2014 journalist jamie bartlett in his book the dark net used the term to describe a range of underground and emergent subcultures including camgirls cryptoanarchists darknet drug markets self harm communities social media racists and transhumanists 16 uses darknets in general may be used for various reasons such as to better protect the privacy rights of citizens from targeted and mass surveillance computer crime cracking file corruption etc protecting dissidents from political reprisal file sharing warez personal files pornography confidential files illegal or counterfeit software etc sale of restricted goods on darknet markets whistleblowing and news leaks purchase or sale of illicit or illegal goods or services 17 circumventing network censorship and content filtering systems or bypassing restrictive firewall policies 18 software all darknets require specific software installed or network configurations made to access them such as tor which can be accessed via a customized browser from vidalia aka the tor browser bundle or alternatively via a proxy configured to perform the same function active tor is the most popular instance of a darknet 19 and it is often mistakenly thought to be the only online tool that facilitates access to darknets a cartogram illustrating the average number of tor users per day in 2015 alphabetical list anonet is a decentralized friend to friend network built using vpn and software bgp routers decentralized network 42 not for anonymity but research purposes freenet is a popular dht file hosting darknet platform it supports friend to friend and opennet modes gnunet can be utilized as a darknet 20 if the f2f network topology option is enabled 21 i2p invisible internet project is an overlay proxy network that features hidden services called eepsites ipfs has a browser extension that may backup popular webpages retroshare is a friend to friend messenger communication and file transfer platform it may be used as a darknet if dht and discovery features are disabled riffle is a government client server darknet system that simultaneously provides secure anonymity as long as at least one server remains uncompromised efficient computation and minimal bandwidth burden 22 23 secure scuttlebutt is a peer to peer communication protocol mesh network and self hosted social media ecosystem syndie is software used to publish distributed forums over the anonymous networks of i2p tor and freenet tor the onion router is an anonymity network that also features a darknet via its onion services tribler is an anonymous bittorrent client with built in search engine and non web worldwide publishing through channels urbit is a federated system of personal servers in a peer to peer overlay network no longer supported stealthnet discontinued waste zeronet is a dht web 2 0 hosting with tor users defunct allpeers turtle f2f see also crypto anarchism cryptocurrency darknet market dark web deep web private peer to peer p2p sneakernet virtual private network vpn references 1 2 gayard laurent 2018 darknet geopolitics and uses hoboken nj john wiley sons p 158 isbn 9781786302021 wood jessica july 2010 1 january 2010 the majority was completed by the original date the darknet a digital copyright revolution richmond journal of law technology 16 4 14 archived from the original on 24 november 2020 retrieved 19 march 2020 mansfield devine steve 1 december 2009 darknets computer fraud security 2009 12 4 6 doi 10 1016 s1361 3723 09 70150 2 pradhan sayam 2020 anonymous the darkest web the dark side of the internet india pothi p 9 isbn 9798561755668 martin james 2014 drugs on the dark net how cryptomarkets are transforming the global trade in illicit drugs new york palgrave macmillan p 2 isbn 9781349485666 press foundation freedom of the securedrop github freedom of the press foundation archived from the original on 16 april 2022 retrieved 28 january 2019 1 2 darknet se about darknet 2010 08 12 archived from the original on 2010 08 12 retrieved 2019 11 05 wood jessica 2010 the darknet a digital copyright revolution pdf richmond journal of law and technology 16 4 15 17 archived pdf from the original on 16 may 2013 retrieved 25 october 2011 mansfield devine steve december 2009 darknets computer fraud security 2009 12 4 6 doi 10 1016 s1361 3723 09 70150 2 barratt monica 15 january 2015 a discussion about dark net terminology drugs internet society archived from the original on 18 january 2016 retrieved 14 june 2015 clearing up confusion deep web vs dark web brightplanet archived from the original on 2015 05 16 retrieved 2015 06 03 npr staff 25 may 2014 going dark the internet behind the internet archived from the original on 27 may 2015 retrieved 29 may 2015 greenberg andy 19 november 2014 hacker lexicon what is the dark web archived from the original on 7 june 2015 retrieved 6 june 2015 biddle peter england paul peinado marcus willman bryan 18 november 2002 the darknet and the future of content distribution pdf acm workshop on digital rights management washington d c microsoft corporation archived from the original pdf on 17 july 2012 retrieved 10 october 2012 lasica j d 2005 darknets hollywood s war against the digital generation hoboken nj j wiley sons isbn 0 471 68334 5 ian burrell 28 august 2014 the dark net inside the digital underworld by jamie bartlett book review archived from the original on 20 june 2015 retrieved 3 june 2015 taylor harriet 19 may 2016 hit men drugs and malicious teens the darknet is going mainstream cnbc archived from the original on 13 june 2018 retrieved 9 september 2017 who uses tor tor project retrieved 14 may 2017 anticounterfeiting on the dark web distinctions between the surface web dark web and deep web pdf 13 april 2015 archived from the original pdf on 4 june 2015 retrieved 1 june 2015 bennett krista grothoff christian kügler dennis 2003 dingledine roger ed privacy enhancing technologies third international workshop pet 2003 springer verlag heidelberg pp 141 175 isbn 9783540206101 xiang yang lopez javier jay kuo c c zhou wanlei eds 2012 cyberspace safety and security 4th international symposium proceedings css 2012 springer heidelberg pp 89 90 isbn 9783642353628 young hyun kwon 20 may 2015 riffle an efficient communication system with strong anonymity pdf retrieved 12 july 2016 larry hardesty mit news office 11 july 2016 how to stay anonymous online archived from the original on 12 july 2016 retrieved 12 july 2016 media related to darknet at wikimedia commons v t e peer to peer file sharing networks protocols centralized direct connect soribada soulseek xdcc decentralized bittorrent dat edonkey fasttrack fopnu hyphanet gnunet gnutella gnutella2 i2p ipfs kad lbry openft onionshare perfect dark retroshare share tribler webtorrent winmx winny zeronet historic audiogalaxy cutemx hotline kazaa limewire morpheus napster scour usenet waste comparisons of clients advanced direct connect bittorrent direct connect gnutella gnutella2 webtorrent hyperlinks ed2k magnet metalink uses backup broadcatching disk sharing game and video sharing image sharing music sharing peercasting seedboxes sharing software web hosting freesite ipfs zeronet legal aspects concepts privacy anonymous p2p darknet darkweb friend to friend open music model private p2p tor internal technologies distributed hash table merkle tree nat traversal peer exchange bittorrent protocol encryption sha 1 sha 2 super seeding bittorrent tracker udp hole punching micro transport protocol v t e tor onion routing authors of source code darpa free haven massachusetts institute of technology office of naval research the tor project inc matt blaze wendy seltzer ian goldberg roger dingledine gabriella coleman cindy cohn megan price bruce schneier jacob appelbaum former sponsors united states agency for global media electronic frontier foundation knight foundation mozilla foundation swedish international development cooperation agency sri international united states department of state united states department of defense national science foundation realisations proxifiers orbot graphical user interface nyx status monitor vidalia outdated web browsers piratebrowser tor browser bundle xb browser outdated operating systems anonym os outdated incognito outdated tails whonix xb machine outdated instant messaging briar ricochet outdated torchat outdated tor messenger outdated file sharing tribler vuze peer to peer web hosting zeronet computer appliances snowflake tor phone outdated pseudo top level domains exit onion tor law enforcement operations operation bayonet operation dark huntor j code operation onymous operation pacifier operation torpedo operation lobos 1 project habitance retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title darknet oldid 1365341093 categories file sharing virtual private networks darknet markets cyberspace internet terminology dark web network architecture distributed computing architecture 1970s neologisms anonymity networks internet architecture hidden categories articles with short description short description is different from wikidata wikipedia indefinitely semi protected pages commons category link from wikidata this page was last edited on 21 july 2026 at 20 15 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license 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