[tor-talk] Vanity onion attacks

[griffin at cryptolab.net]

Gregory Maxwell ha scritto:
> I wonder if anyone is enumerating hidden services and can post some
> stats on how many low edit-distance names they're seeing in the
> directory?

   I've seen this sort of mimicking happen a few times, but then again it 
would be just as easy to use a vanity generator to mimic a standard 
onion.

qwertyuasdfghjkl.onion is easily mimicked by qwertyuzxcvbnmi.onion, if 
users are only glancing at the address.

~Griffin Boyce