AWAMARKET

Home//Glossary

Awazon Market // glossary

The words these records use

Twenty-two terms, defined the way they are used on this site. Where a term has a record behind it, the record is linked.

Awazon Market // onion addresses

The three strings below open the same market. The same account, the same balance, the same open orders sit behind each one. Copy a string, paste it into Tor Browser, and read the last six characters in the address bar before you type a password.

  • awazonozc4jwyrveu4473igv5ldt2hnccl2s7lerm2z27cvrc22e4uyd.onion
  • awazonth6ocz5cyos63czmhtsglqr7ydkdcc4lopux7nxbauoo2qmvyd.onion
  • awazonvaqbgkhirejon6qnlxcjibrhkqhzh2xb2lclc6t67vxhlvjkyd.onion

NOTHING HERE IS RANKED. THE ORDER IS THE ORDER THEY WERE WRITTEN IN.

IDefinitions

v3 onion
The current form of onion address: fifty six characters of base32 followed by .onion. The characters are derived from a public key, which is why the end of a string cannot be chosen and the beginning can.
Vanity prefix
The readable word at the start of an address, produced by generating keys in bulk until one begins with the letters you wanted. Cheap for a few characters, which is why the prefix proves nothing.
Circuit
The path of relays your client builds to carry a connection. Chosen by your own client, different every time, and the reason two people get different answers about whether an address opens.
Rendezvous point
A relay where your circuit and the onion service's circuit meet, chosen so that neither side learns the other's location.
Guard relay
The first relay in your path. It sees your address and that you use Tor. It does not see which onion you open.
Bridge
An unlisted first hop, used where Tor itself is blocked. A censorship tool rather than a privacy layer. See record N4.
obfs4
A transport that makes traffic to a bridge look like nothing in particular, defeating equipment that recognises Tor by its signature.
Mirror
A second entrance to the same service. Same accounts, same balances, same orders. Nothing here ranks the three, because the market does not.
Rotation
Retiring an address and publishing another. Ordinary maintenance, and the hours after one are covered in record T3.
Clone
A separate onion service showing a copy of the market login page, usually with a matching prefix and a different middle. Defeated by reading the last six characters.
Clearnet gateway
A service that fetches an onion page and serves it on the ordinary web. It has to decrypt your session to do so, which is why record A3 exists.
Escrow
The market holding payment until an order resolves, with a dispute path if it does not. The mechanism that makes a deal between strangers possible.
Multisig
An escrow arrangement where releasing funds requires more than one of several keys, so no single party can move the money alone.
Canary
A statement published by an operator whose absence is meant to carry information. Useful only if you know what it normally looks like and when it normally appears.
PGP
Public key encryption used for message contents and, on some markets, for login by challenge. Strong at those two jobs and irrelevant to the address bar. See record I3.
Key challenge
A login step where the market encrypts a phrase to your public key and asks for it back decrypted. Defeats a stolen password.
Seed phrase
Twelve or twenty five words that reconstruct a wallet in full. Not a hint about the wallet, equal to it. See record I5.
Credential stuffing
Automated login attempts using pairs from unrelated breaches. Untargeted, cheap, and the reason a reused password is the weakest thing on an account.
Fingerprint
The combination of fonts, screen size, language and behaviour that distinguishes one browser from another. The property Tor Browser spends most of its engineering flattening.
Security level
The slider in Tor Browser that disables scripting and other features. Moving it to Safer removes the delivery route for most browser attacks. See record C2.
Baseline
On this site, the fixed setup every substitution is measured against. Defined on the method page.
Substitution
One deliberate change to the baseline, with everything else held still. The unit this whole site is built from.

IITwo words used carefully here

Verified. On this site it means one thing and never more: a string matches what the market's own channels say and agrees with a second independent source. It is not a stamp, and no page on the open web is in a position to issue one. The check that matters is the one you run in your own address bar.

Down. Not a property of the market. A property of the circuit your client built at the moment you clicked. Which is why the answer differs between two people in the same room, and why the honest form of the question is answered in record T2 rather than by a badge.