[tor-talk] Let's make Onion Addresses Meaningful To Humans

Robert Ransom rransom.8774 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 16:10:48 UTC 2012


On 2012-02-24, Andreas Krey <a.krey at gmx.de> wrote:

> Which node interprets the .onion names to hashes, anyway?

Tor clients themselves interpret hidden service hostnames, so every
Tor client would need to include every dictionary.  (Dictionaries
couldn't be kept in an optional extra package, because clients which
do not have a particular dictionary would be easily distinguishable
from those which do have it.)


Robert Ransom


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