And 10 years down when 20 bits is easy, you're going
want shrinking it again, or along any interim update cycle.
This is going to upset downstream parsers such as
web indexers that expect matching fixed length / pattern.
or that have to write zero [de]fillers.
ex: [a-z2-7]{16}\.onion, we now see s
Hi all,
At the Montreal hidden service hackfest, we discussed another scheme shortening
prop224 .onion addresses.
The only drawback is that it's exponentially difficult, so it can only chop off
a few characters.
I'm describing it here because it has other useful properties, and can be used
as:
