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On 10/31/2014 2:47 PM, Sam Pizzey wrote: > So called 'vanity' addresses are essentially a brute force - > generating tons of keys until you get one that starts with the > prefix you want. The difference is that 'bob1d8rhdu2h.onion' is a > lot less specific than facebookwwwi.onion - if Facebook can brute > force arbitrary strings like that, they can instead brute force, > say, <address of silk road>, or <address of David's hidden service> > and then impersonate it. > It is not that simple. What makes you think they generated exactly the URL facebookcorewwwi.onion completely? They need to show some more information about how they did it... There is also a chance that they took a very long time to generate facebook*. As I said, only they can tell us exactly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUU4WfAAoJEIN/pSyBJlsRC14H/ApTNz7Zscd7sTGuUheVSZbU 7mTyyZc88KLiFi7O9sgQeUGNNnvR2V0AFdnwxeB25A8a/fbuFNnQraSrQANU6ja9 huJw/IMWUUhHgpJR5IAjXagwA0d1KhsuZk6pJI3ajQrI+CGh91FmrcNsVCUN71sz 8upP6z8qzmx3jJTYeA9CCShfiCFgzoHCT6LP+BuLcBZ4F7qmtb2vtwlrwrJBrLmB l+Z03sch5/FpbmlfhataOb1/TjwlmHmZKACTILNCGVhEa1PnlJYmcc/d8wRwMDTw k6t0mna9CcKFA8P7Cbp1pDZUgXWXMAm8pOtcmzfAB/u8fmy+qlQLlIxAa/HtFNo= =zHRh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
