[tor-talk] Pattern In Tor Addresses

[Andreas Krey]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 23:25:46 +0000, Ben Healey wrote:
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> When the key generator I've been trying produced an address 90% of the time the browser does nothing.

That has to do with the fact that each letter/digit represents
five bits, while a-z0-9 are 36 values, and so tor does not use
(afaik) the digits 0189, and has nothing to connect to when presented
with those.

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800