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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: slon on October 06, 2012, 08:04 pm
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hey lads.
Can anyone explain me, how it was possible to change SR onion address like this? I probably miss something about Tor mechanisms but I thought onion address is a server's public key. I also thought when we create a key pair, public/private, we can't adjust the bytes as we want, can we? If that was ok, then we'd be able to make a private key knowing only public.. and it denies all the asymetric cryptography at all.
So what's the secret? Or SR crew left their PCs to generate key pairs until it really made first ascii chars to match 'silkroad'?
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I wish I could comment on this but I'm not sure what you're referring. Is the the URL you're talking about and why it's "dkn255 ...onion"? I don't know if it's possible to resolve it to an easily recognizable URL since the nature of the onion is about anonymity. I suppose you could map it to a familiar favorite address.
Anyone have any knowledge on this?
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AFAIK Shallot is what everyone uses to generate custom .onion addresses. I don't know how to do it manually or if any other software is available.
https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot
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Sounds like LE. ;)
Stay safe!
-- Jah.
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Sounds like LE. ;)
Stay safe!
-- Jah.
I dunno, I've wondered the same thing. I'm definitely not LE ;-)
I think the OP poster could be right though, possibly just brute force until "silkroad" was in the url. Man, that's a potential fuckload of CPU power just to get a somewhat custom .onion address.
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Sounds like LE. ;)
Stay safe!
-- Jah.
I dunno, I've wondered the same thing. I'm definitely not LE ;-)
I think the OP poster could be right though, possibly just brute force until "silkroad" was in the url. Man, that's a potential fuckload of CPU power just to get a somewhat custom .onion address.
Red flag means red flag! :)
Haha... where's the fire concentrates at?
We're not LE! ;)
-- Jah.
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Yep, I meant silkroadvb5piz3r.onion.
Fist SR address was just like any other under Tor, i.e. chaotic. One day I found that old address doesn't work and now it's much more human friendly. If that's not what I'm thinking of (bruteforcing key pairs.. to get 'silkroad' as first characters there must be 64^8 combinations.. how much time it takes to generate one pair?) why don't everybody so the same under .onion network?
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I have seen DPR say that he just randomly generated .onions until the current Sr one popped up.
He also generated alternate addresses in case were to ever have to use them.
They are for future use, so please - no need to tell us they don't work right now.
they are:
silkroadiplkjo7t.onion
bpbpoqbqdodbqbqb.onion
pddqoboqqqqqbqdq.onion
you could find that post by him here somewhere.
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That explains, thanks.
I wonder how much time it has taken.
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That explains, thanks.
I wonder how much time it has taken.
It took a number of months to generate the current silkroadvb5piz3r.onion address, along with the two backup addresses which you'll find in Shroomeister's post above.
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AFAIK Shallot is what everyone uses to generate custom .onion addresses. I don't know how to do it manually or if any other software is available.
https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot
Thanks for the info. Very interesting.