[tor-talk] dutch police crawling hidden servers

[Roger Dingledine]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 03:09:29PM -0400, Andrew Lewman wrote:
> Given the resources of a national police force, it seems probable they
> can create a crawler to simply crawl every permutation of hidden service
> addresses on port 80 alone.

No, that's 2^80 addresses. Doing 2^80 lookups over Tor will take
millenia (if you're efficient).

--Roger