It is important to clarify something immediately: that appears in certain underground forums or obscure logs.
Thus, (missing the .onion suffix). What Could This Address Have Pointed To? In the context of TorChat, each user or chat room had a unique 16-character .onion address. So frequently, lists of TorChat contacts appeared as:
| Application | Protocol | Onion Support | Status | |-------------|----------|---------------|--------| | | Peer-to-peer over Tor | Yes (v3) | Active | | Ricochet Refresh | Peer-to-peer over Tor | Yes (v3) | Active | | Briar | P2P + Tor + BLE | Yes | Active | | Session | Onion routing + blockchain | No (but onion-like) | Active |