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Is there a reason a hacker couldn't just create a key like "q68RxlopoLEwq+PEeb4+QwBBGIY=" to create a similar problem?
by YPCrumble 10y ago
Is there a reason a hacker couldn't just create a key like "q68RxlopoLEwq+PEeb4+QwBBGIY=" to create a similar problem?
- akerro 10y agoThe string is longer so collision is harder to find. btw that's a way .onion addresses are generated, it takes first 80 bytes from the key and outputs base32 from the input.
- CiPHPerCoder 10y agoRather, it takes the first 80 bits of a SHA1 hash of a 1024-bit RSA public key, then converts it to base32. Obviously, collisions aren't obscenely expensive.