This is scaring. Can someone calculate how much computer power they used to generate the 11 chars?
----- Message from Sam Pizzey <[email protected]> --------- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:47:32 +0000 From: Sam Pizzey <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Facebook brute forcing hidden services To: [email protected]
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. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
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