Re: [tor-dev] Error-Correcting Onions with Bech32

2017-12-30 Thread teor
Hi, Please read the naming layer API proposal before writing your proposal: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/279-naming-layer-api.txt In particular, if you added a unique top-level domain (.bech?), you would only have to specify how a the bech translation plugin works.

Re: [tor-dev] Error-Correcting Onions with Bech32

2017-12-30 Thread nullius
On 2017-12-31 at 00:57:49 +, Alec Muffett wrote: Thanks! That's very interesting! TIL :-) Why, if it isn’t instant feedback from the RFC 7686 co-author! In response to what you said, in brief: I will propose that any subdomain data (which is presumably

Re: [tor-dev] Error-Correcting Onions with Bech32

2017-12-30 Thread Alec Muffett
Thanks! That's very interesting! TIL :-) What would you propose to do with subdomains, like www.facebookcorewwwi.onion? Or is that outside the scope of your proposal? - alec On 31 Dec 2017 00:53, "nullius" wrote: > # Synopsis > > The Bech32 standard for error-correcting

[tor-dev] Error-Correcting Onions with Bech32

2017-12-30 Thread nullius
# Synopsis The Bech32 standard for error-correcting base32 strings was developed explicitly for relative ease and reliability in human communication of pseudorandom bitstrings. I invite discussion of specifying Bech32 as an alternative means for representing RFC 7686 .onion domain names.