Gah, I am evidently having a bad day with e-mail, so I am going to send a typo correction with this and then go do something else instead.
Corrections in caps, below. — Alec Muffett Security Infrastructure Facebook Engineering London > On Aug 8, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Alec Muffett <al...@fb.com> wrote: > > Please let a thousand discovery mechanisms bloom - including peer-to-peer > directories and tweeted URLs. > > But, what they boil down to, please let *that* be human-readable, too. The > more I THINK about it, the more I like: > > a1uik-0w1gm-fq3i5-ievxd-m9ceu-27e88-g6o7p-e0rff-dw9jm-ntwkd-sdxxx.onion > > …where the final “xxx” is a 15-bit truncated secure hash of the rest of the > original raw address bitstring. > > That way people looking to quickly compare addresses can check the first > QUINTET, and the last, and sample a few of the inner ones (“…people compare > glyphs not words…” / “there’s IEVXD and there’s E0RFF, I like that one, it’s > like Eeyore in Winnie-The-Pooh, and 0WLGM reminds me of Owls") and be > reasonably satisfied and reasonably secure. > > And the XXX can be checked by the browser and tell the user that they’ve > goofed-up cut/paste/typing-it-in. And then they bookmark it once it loads. >
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