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why did tor use .onion? - Ivan - 06-04-2014 04:22 AM
they could have used .tor .private or anything else.
so my question is why did they choose onion
- Cantra - 06-04-2014 04:31 AM
The tor network uses an 'onion routing' security technique, where a text file is wrapped in multiple layers of encryption, which are removed one by one, peeled off like the layers of an onion.
Since that's the security the Tor network is based on, they use .onion as a (pseudo) top level domain identifier.