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How the heck does this work? I thought .onions were essentially a hash of a public key, making finding collisions (or even 1-char near collisions like your exam
by Retr0id 3y ago
How the heck does this work? I thought .onions were essentially a hash of a public key, making finding collisions (or even 1-char near collisions like your example) infeasible. Do both of your example links resolve? If so, how?
I have no doubt that you can find one with similar prefix and/or suffix, but not to the degree of similarity of your example.
- michaelt 3y ago> How the heck does this work? It doesn't. But you could use brute force to produce something like https://www.bbcnewsd7xlp77nkq76byazcldy2hlmovfu2egnv7t2rccijhnu45uqd.onion https://www.bbcnewsd7xlp77nkq76byazcldy2hlmovfu2egnv7t2rccij... and at least some people will be inattentive enough to fall for it.
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