The Tor Darknet is a pseudo-anonymous place to host content online frequently used by criminals to sell narcotics and to distribute illicit material. Many studies have attempted to estimate the size of the darknet, but this paper will show that previous estimates on size are inaccurate due to hidden service lifecycle. The first examination of its kind will be presented on the differences between short-lived and long-lived hidden services. Finally, in light of a new Tor protocol for the darknet which will prevent the running of relays to learning darknet sites, an analysis is presented of the use of crawling and whether this is an effective mechanism to discover sites for law enforcement.

Tor Darknet是一个伪匿名场所，用于在线存储犯罪分子经常用来出售毒品和散布非法材料的内容。许多研究已尝试估计暗网的大小，但是本文将显示，由于隐藏的服务生命周期，先前对大小的估计是不准确的。此类同类的第一次检查将针对短期和长期隐藏服务之间的差异进行介绍。最后，针对用于暗网的新Tor协议，这将阻止中继器运行到学习暗网站点，分析了爬网的使用以及这是否是发现执法站点的有效机制。