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> I knew Tor Project has been shifting away from "hidden services" for a while I read the article after your correction, and on reading the `What are Tor onion
by manwithaplan 8y ago
> I knew Tor Project has been shifting away from "hidden services" for a while
I read the article after your correction, and on reading the `What are Tor onion services?` section, I thought “How nice, they’re using the new terminology to go with the new v3 service address”.
But then, just below, I saw the https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2018/05/image_3.png https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2018/05/image_3.p... diagram still mention “hidden service” and thought “an old image slipped thru, tho” :)
Also, wouldn’t a “1111dns4tor” prefix look better? :)
- jgrahamc 8y ago> Also, wouldn’t a “1111dns4tor” prefix look better? :) Yes, it would but the .onion addresses use base32 and '1' isn't in the alphabet used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32
- jedberg 8y agoYou could have done IIIIdns4tor :)
- kodablah 8y agoIt would be iiiidns4tor because, while base-32 is commonly implemented with capital letters, the onion service ID is lower cased.
- mahrud 8y agoAlso, farming an onion with that many fixed characters takes a good few hundreds or thousands of years.
- zaarn 8y agoThis is a v3 onion service, it should be easier to find prefixes, plus CF (and other companies like FB) have done pretty long prefixes via brute force (they have a lot of computers)
- manwithaplan 8y ago> but the .onion addresses use base32 and '1' isn't in the alphabet used I see. Oh well, at least Google and Quad9 can’t, either (base32 digits stop at ‘7’).