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The address is also a public key. No one else can pretend to be the New Yorker unless they have the corresponding private key. If the address was just "newyork
by ef4 13y ago
The address is also a public key. No one else can pretend to be the New Yorker unless they have the corresponding private key.
If the address was just "newyorker.onion", you'd still need to find some way of safely verifying the public key to make sure you're really talking to the New Yorker.
- Serow225 13y agoThis could be a naive question, but would it be possible to allow the site to choose their public key text? That way they could choose 'newyorkerstrongbox' or similar.
- zokier 13y agoNo, that would pretty much break the whole public-key cryptography if it were possible.
- Serow225 13y agoAgreed, my wording was poor - see reply below by aceberry for what I was trying to get at.
- MichaelGG 13y agoSomewhat - you can keep generating keys until the characters look like something. SR's address starts with "silkroad" followed by a few more random characters.