On 26 Jan 2017, at 10:19, teor teor2345@gmail.com wrote:
onion_address = base32(pubkey || checksum || version)
Is the order in which the address is encoded once the checksum is calculated. checksum represents (the first two bytes of) the result of the SHA3 hash.
We put pubkey first so that humans can distinguish addresses. (We could put checksum first, but that's non-standard.)
I just talked with some people who run a large onion site.
They asked if we can put the checksum at the front of the encoded address.
This makes phishing with different bit(s) in the tail of the address much harder. (That is, searching for a matching prefix for an existing address is much harder if the checksum changes the first two characters unpredictably. People ignore the checksum if it's at the end.)
T -- Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)
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