Who we are, why we publish, and what this directory does and does not do. Read this before deciding whether to trust the mirror list.
A small editorial group, two writers and one operator, all of whom have followed darknet markets since the original Silk Road era. The work is not paid by Torzon, the operators are not affiliated with Torzon staff, and there is no advertising relationship of any kind. The directory exists because curated, signed mirror lists are the single best defense against phishing for a casual user.
Torzon publishes a flat ASCII manifest of mirrors signed with a long-lived PGP key. A daemon on our infrastructure pulls the manifest every few minutes, validates the signature, probes each onion over Tor, and records reachability. The reachable set is cached locally, and the cache feeds both this page and the rotator endpoint.
The operator key fingerprint is published in the manifest. We do not republish the fingerprint here on the principle that visitors should verify directly against the source, not against an intermediary.
The directory is informational, not promotional. We do not tell readers whether to use Torzon. We do tell readers that, if they are going to use Torzon, doing so through a verified mirror is several orders of magnitude safer than typing an onion from memory or trusting a link from a chat message.
The rotator endpoint serves a short contact page at /contact. It lists a PGP key and an XMPP address bound to a Tor-only onion. There is no clearnet contact channel by design.
This directory has been online longer than most market access points, but it is not permanent. Mirror sets change as Torzon shifts capacity, the operator key may rotate, and at some point the project itself will wind down. When that happens, the directory will either pass to a successor team with a published handoff, or the rotator will simply stop serving signed manifests. If you ever load this page and the timestamp at the bottom is more than a week old, treat the listed mirrors as stale.
The directory pays for itself out of pocket. There is no donation address on this page on purpose. We do not want a wallet to defend, do not want to publish one that could be linked back to the operators, and do not want readers to feel obligated. If you want to contribute, the most useful thing you can do is share the canonical URL with people who would otherwise type a Torzon onion from memory.
