[tor-dev] prop224: Ditching key blinding for shorter onion addresses

Nick Mathewson nickm at alum.mit.edu
Sat Jul 30 17:00:35 UTC 2016


whoops, didn't reply-all.

On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Nick Mathewson <nickm at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 9:32 AM, George Kadianakis <desnacked at riseup.net> wrote:
>  [...]
>>
>> Please let me know in what way this scheme is completely broken!
>
> I think it has the same problem as the last one: there does not appear
> to be a way to keep an attacker from putting their own record in place
> using your query_key, and thereby performing a DoS on your hidden
> service.
>
>
> --
> Nick


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