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

[grarpamp <grarpamp@xxxxxxxxx>]

people wrote:
> And just where exactly and in what protocols and apps are
> going to build in that feedback popup... browsers? ssh? MUA? ping? skype?

> Vanity addresses encourage people to only verify the human-readable part

> That said, if an address is completely incapable, even hostile to validation by human eyeballs, then what happens is âtrustâ migrates

Humans give up on long strings of anything because it requires work
to validate. If not at first glance different, how many people here give
up, pipe to hash, and use the avalanche to compare.

Outside of better introduction, pinning, bookmarking, chaining,
namespaces and WOT, humans and strings are just intractable.
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