On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Alec Muffett <[email protected]> wrote: > Aside: in pursuit of helping Jake register “.onion” as a "special name” in > an RFC, I am currently being beaten-up on the IETF discussion mail-list > regards the potential future length of onion addresses, and that they may > possibly exceed the bounds of DNS’ maximum label length of 63 characters: > > https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg94332.html > > The examples in Proposal 224 are a mere 53 characters long leaving 10 to > play with for padding-hyphens and possibly checksum characters. > > Nick: Is this likely to need to change? Or might there be a need to encode > > 315 bits / 63 chars total?
I don't anticipate this changing. If there were ever a need to encode more than that number of bits, we'd add an extra label. _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
