Re: [tor-dev] Future Onion Addresses and Human Factors

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From: Alec Muffett <alecm@xxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 11:42:24 +0000

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Thread-topic: Future Onion Addresses and Human Factors

On Aug 8, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Alec Muffett <alecm@xxxxxx> wrote:
9) appending a credit-card-like âyou typed this properlyâ extra few characters checksum over the length might be helpful (10..15 bits?) - ideally this might help round-up the count of characters to a full field, eg: XXX in this?
        a1uik-0w1gm-fq3i5-ievxd-m9ceu-27e88-g6o7p-e0rff-dw9jm-ntwkd-sdXXX.onion

For the avoidance of doubt: I am not proposing use of special-case capital letters for checksums. I merely use capital letters for emphasis.

Alec Muffett

Security Infrastructure

Facebook Engineering

London

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