Hello,
David Goulet wrote:
>
>>
>> OK thanks for the useful discussion. I identified at least three feedback
>> points:
>>
>> + Screw base58 it's not gonna work. We stick to base32. Usability will
>> be "restored" with a proper name system.
>>
>> + Move version byte to the end of the address
On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:40:00 +, segfault wrote:
...
> While the addresses are definitely too long to be fun to type, there are
> still use cases where the addresses will be typed.
For those cases you could print them with half-spaces or similar.
You can even type them but need to remove them
On 2017-01-24 08:00, David Goulet wrote:
On 24 Jan (14:27:43), George Kadianakis wrote:
s7r writes:
> Hello George,
>
> George Kadianakis wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> we've had discussions over the past years about how to encode prop224 onion
>> addresses. Here is the latest
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:40:00PM +, segfault wrote:
> But maybe it would help to separate them into groups of 4 characters,
> separated maybe by a dash, which would make them look like this:
>
>
> tbi5-tdxb-osio-tpha-wjyu-7f5p-w5tl-nvbv-fjrj-7mes-kbsn-wr2b-qbu2-t4gg.onion
Check out
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:40:00 +
From: segfault
But maybe it would help to separate them into groups of 4 characters,
separated maybe by a dash, which would make them look like this:
On 24 Jan (14:27:43), George Kadianakis wrote:
> s7r writes:
>
> > Hello George,
> >
> > George Kadianakis wrote:
> >> Hello list,
> >>
> >> we've had discussions over the past years about how to encode prop224 onion
> >> addresses. Here is the latest thread:
> >>
Hi George,
George Kadianakis:
[...]
> [D3] Do we like base32???
>
> In this proposal I suggest we keep the base32 encoding since we've been
> using it for a while; but this is the perfect time to switch if we feel
> the need to.
>
> For example, Bitcoin is using base58
chelsea komlo writes:
> Hey George,
>
> Thanks for sending this and summarizing everything!
>
>> [D1] How to use version field:
>>
>> The version field is one byte long. If we use it as an integer we can
>> encode 256 values in it; if we use it as a bitmap we
s7r writes:
> Hello George,
>
> George Kadianakis wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> we've had discussions over the past years about how to encode prop224 onion
>> addresses. Here is the latest thread:
>> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-December/011734.html
>>
>>