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