Re: [tor-dev] Memorable onion addresses (was Discussion on the crypto migration plan of the identity keys of Hidden Services)

2013-06-19 Thread Lunar
Matthew Finkel: Some months ago, the petname system interested me enough that I started to write a proposal for it. At this point, it's wound up in bitrot. Though I'd spent a bit of time working on it, there was no comprehensive way to accomplish it. One thing to remember about petnames is

Re: [tor-dev] Memorable onion addresses (was Discussion on the crypto migration plan of the identity keys of Hidden Services)

2013-06-19 Thread Ian Goldberg
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 09:56:21PM +0200, Lunar wrote: Matthew Finkel: Some months ago, the petname system interested me enough that I started to write a proposal for it. At this point, it's wound up in bitrot. Though I'd spent a bit of time working on it, there was no comprehensive way

Re: [tor-dev] Memorable onion addresses (was Discussion on the crypto migration plan of the identity keys of Hidden Services)

2013-06-07 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:23:55AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: This has the side effect of promoting good onion upkeep. Which people might be loathe to do given the recent paper about deanon hidden services seeming to be relatively doable. At least until those issues are solved... of the

Re: [tor-dev] Memorable onion addresses (was Discussion on the crypto migration plan of the identity keys of Hidden Services)

2013-06-07 Thread grarpamp
This has the side effect of promoting good onion upkeep. Which people might be loathe to do given the recent paper about deanon hidden services seeming to be relatively doable. At least until those issues are solved... of the system. After 6 months (or so) the naming will stabilize and be

Re: [tor-dev] Memorable onion addresses (was Discussion on the crypto migration plan of the identity keys of Hidden Services)

2013-06-06 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:11:37AM -0400, Griffin Boyce wrote: Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com wrote: So I think we should make some terms clear (just for the sake of clarity). We have, I guess, three different naming-system ideas floating here: petnames, (distibuted)

[tor-dev] Memorable onion addresses (was Discussion on the crypto migration plan of the identity keys of Hidden Services)

2013-05-19 Thread George Kadianakis
adrelanos: George Kadianakis: If we move to the higher security of (e.g.) 128-bits, the base32 string suddenly becomes 26 characters. Is that still conveniently sized to pass around, or should we admit that we failed this goal and we are free to crank up the security to 256-bits

Re: [tor-dev] Memorable onion addresses (was Discussion on the crypto migration plan of the identity keys of Hidden Services)

2013-05-19 Thread Griffin Boyce
Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com wrote: So I think we should make some terms clear (just for the sake of clarity). We have, I guess, three different naming-system ideas floating here: petnames, (distibuted) namecoin-ish, and centralized consensus-based - rough summary. Some months