[tor-talk] Wikimedia and Tor

[Mirimir]

On 10/02/2014 06:52 AM, Derric Atzrott wrote:

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> I liked the GPG idea, and brought it back to Wikitech-l. I'll let
> you guys know if anyone there finds a way to completely break it.

There's another possibility that's probably easier to implement and
test, but isn't so broadly useful as a hard-to-generate GnuPG key. In
creating a hidden service, the Tor client generates an RSA private_key
and uses the first 80 bytes of the key's SHA1 hash as the hostname.
Vanity hostnames being popular, there are published methods.[0]

[0]
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/29772/how-do-you-get-a-specific-onion-address-for-your-hidden-service