[tor-dev] Proposal 204 and next-gen HS addresses (was: Proposal status changes the last 17 months)

Nick Mathewson:

204 Subdomain support for Hidden Service addresses [FINISHED]

 This one allows an (ignored) foo at the front of
 foo.bar.onion, for subdomain support.  Sadly, I bet it will
 never see much use with the introduction of longer onion
 addresses in our next-gen hidden service design.

Could you elaborate on that last statement?

AFAIK, this feature has not been advertised at all yet because 0.2.4 is still unfortunately not stable.

The initial idea was to be able to support access through a single hidden service to mass-hosting platforms, think of all blogs at *.wordpress.com or *.noblogs.org. Why would the longer onion addresses be a problem in that regard?