Re: [tor-dev] Prop224 oppurtunity: keygen, crypt, sign, encoding tools

2017-02-16 Thread Vi Grey
David Goulet: > On 15 Feb (19:02:22), grarpamp wrote: >> Tor could ship with a tool to offline generate all the >> various keys, encrypt and sign with them, for debug, test, and >> use with other apps that tie to tor. >> And a tool to translate strings between different encodings in use. >> Or at l

Re: [tor-dev] [RFC] Proposal for the encoding of prop224 onion addresses

2017-02-04 Thread Vi Grey
Here is the suggested scheme: onion_address = base32(version + pubkey + checksum) checksum = SHA3(".onion checksum" + version + pubkey) Wouldn't SHA3 be computational overkill if we're just worrying about the checksum making sure the .onion address wasn't mistyped? My suggestion would be t