[tor-dev] Future Onion Addresses and Human Factors

[Alec Muffett]

> 
> On Aug 8, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Alec Muffett <alecm at fb.com> wrote:
> 
> 9) appending a credit-card-like “you typed this properly” 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?
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>         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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