Torzon Mirror

Every week I get the same DM: “The main Torzon link won’t load—what’s the real Torzon Mirror?” The panic is understandable; a single typo in an onion address can ship your coin to a clone site that looks pixel-perfect. This guide walks you through the process I use to grab a fresh Torzon onion mirror, test it, and harden my session so that even if the mirror changes tomorrow I don’t lose money or OPSEC.

What we’re setting up and why it matters

A Torzon Mirror is simply an alternative onion address that points to the same back-end as the primary Torzon Darknet Market. Mirrors exist because DDoS guards and hosting providers rotate nightly. The danger is that phishers register look-alike onions, seed them on Reddit paste bins, and wait for desperate buyers. Our goal is to (1) source the mirror from authenticated channels, (2) verify the market’s PGP signature, and (3) lock down the browser so that a fake page can’t leak your time-zone or JavaScript exploits.

Prerequisites

• Tor Browser 13.5 (or newer) set to “Safest” security level
• A trusted plaintext list of Torzon Darknet Market PGP keys (saved from the last good session or the market’s signed canary)
• Your own PGP key pair—4096-bit RSA generated on an offline Tails stick
• 3 mBTC or 0.15 XMR in a self-custodial wallet (Electrum 4.5.3 or Feather 2.6) so you can make a trivial deposit to test the mirror
• Ten spare minutes—rushing is how you paste the wrong onion

Step 1 – Harvest fresh onions from authenticated sources

Open Tor Browser → about:preferences#privacy → Disable “HTML5 canvas prompts.” Now hit the authenticated canary channels: Torzon’s signed message on Dread (use /u/TorzonOfficial), the market’s Matrix room, or the TXT record of the emergency domain (torzon.to). Copy every onion that ends in .onion—ignore clearnet jump gates. Paste them into a plain text file; we’ll verify next.

Step 2 – Verify the market’s PGP signature

Each legitimate Torzon Mirror ships with a detached PGP signature. Download the mirrors.txt.asc file from the same canary post. In terminal (or Kleopatra if you’re on Windows) run:

gpg --verify mirrors.txt.asc

You should see Good signature from “Torzon Market <admin@torzon>”. If the signature is missing or invalid, throw the whole list away—no exceptions. I keep a dedicated USB with only the Torzon public key block so I’m not fooled by a key that looks similar but has an extra space.

Step 3 – Spin up a sterile Tails session

Reboot into Tails 5.22; set an admin password when the greeter appears. This gives you a non-persistent RAM-only environment so that if the mirror drops a cookie-stealing script nothing survives the shutdown. Verify the clock sync (top-right onion icon must show green). Tor Browser in Tails already ships with the safer preset; bump it to safest by clicking the shield.

Step 4 – Test the mirror with a pocket-money wallet

Pick the first onion from your verified list, paste it into Tor Browser—never click random links. Once the Torzon Darknet Market captcha loads, solve it and immediately check the footer: the current BTC and XMR addresses must match the ones in the signed mirrors.txt. Create a new account with random 12-word passphrase stored in KeePassXC (included in Tails). Navigate to Wallet → Deposit, copy the Monero address, and send 0.05 XMR from your Feather wallet. If the balance appears after two confirmations, the mirror is live and you’re on the real Torzon darknet shop. If the deposit never shows, purge the session and try the next onion.

Step 5 – Lock down your account before browsing

Enable 2-FA: Settings → PGP 2-FA, paste your public key, save. Log out, log back in—decrypt the challenge to be sure. Disable “Show vendors on vacation” and set PIN for withdrawals. These steps protect you if the Torzon mirror later gets hijacked; the attacker still needs your PGP private key to order or withdraw.

Verification steps

• Deposit arrived in <20 min (XMR) or <60 min (BTC)
• PGP 2-FA challenge decrypts cleanly
• Market footer signature matches mirrors.txt.asc
• Onion address appears green in Tor Browser’s address bar (no red certificate warning)

Common issues and troubleshooting

Mirror times out: Hit New Circuit for this Site (Ctrl+Shift+L) three times. Still dead? Move to the next onion—mirrors rotate hourly during DDoS waves.

“Invalid PGP signature” warning: You probably fetched the mirror list from a phishing Reddit post. Delete the file, reboot Tails, and start over.

Deposit missing: Check the transaction ID on xmrchain.net; if it’s confirmed, open a support ticket with the TXID and your deposit address. Torzon staff usually credit within 12 h if you provide the secret TX key from Feather.

Additional security recommendations

Bookmark the verified onion inside KeePassXC’s URL field, not the browser—Tails forgets bookmarks on shutdown. Never reuse usernames between markets; a single breach can tie your accounts together. If you need to leave the computer, shut Tails down completely (pull the USB); the decrypted PGP key lives in RAM and can be cold-booted. Finally, rotate your Torzon mirror every session; yesterday’s working link can be today’s phishing trap.

Follow this routine and you’ll stop treating the Torzon Mirror hunt like a sketchy back-alley deal and more like swapping SIM cards—quick, boring, and safe.