[tor-dev] Error-Correcting Onions with Bech32

[Alec Muffett]

On 31 Dec 2017 12:22, "teor" <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:


Are you aware that there's already a checksum in v3 onion
service addresses?


No I was not*, that's great!

"The onion address of a hidden service includes its identity public key,

a
   version field and a basic checksum."


It would be great to get the human interface elements to leverage this;
perhaps overall we are premature in trying to solve the presumed HCI issues
of long onions?

- a

*entirely
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