[tor-talk] onion id calculation

[Nick]

On 9/15/12, Robert Ransom wrote:
> On 9/15/12, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > u...p.onion
> >
> > -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
> > ...
> > -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
> >
> > openssl rsa -in private_key -pubout -outform DER | sha1 | cut -c 1-10
> > python -c "import base64, sys; print
> > base64.b32encode(sys.stdin.readline().rstrip('\n')).lower()"
> > gu4dsm3cmi3dkyzw
> >
> > What am I doing wrong besides being sleepy?
> 
> You're using the first quarter of the base16 encoding of the SHA-1
> hash, instead of the first half of the SHA-1 hash itself.

Also, don't use a service whose private key you've exposed over email.
I'd make a new hidden service for that.