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

> On 2 Jan 2018, at 10:51, nullius wrote: > > On 2018-01-01 at 22:36:53 +, Taylor R Campbell > wrote: >>> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:46:28 + >>> From: Alec Muffett >>> >>> Or, indeed, you could leave out the

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

On 2018-01-01 at 22:36:53 +, Taylor R Campbell wrote: Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:46:28 + From: Alec Muffett Or, indeed, you could leave out the hyphens and do the same; the Prop224 Onion address is 59 characters, leaving a budget of

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

> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:46:28 + > From: Alec Muffett > > Or, indeed, you could leave out the hyphens and do the same; the Prop224 > Onion address is 59 characters, leaving a budget of 63-59==4 characters or > 20 bits; we could put these at the end, in the space

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

Hi, > b) if Onion addresses have 2+ forms, one like the current > (www.4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion) and the > other being apparently more human-usable because it contains a CRC, the one > which allows access to websites will win. What if they both allow

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

On 31 December 2017 at 02:46, nullius wrote: > For the foregoing reasons, I will propose that subdomain data, if any, be > kept separate from the Bech32 coding. It may be either kept in a separate > string, or somehow affixed with a special delimiter either before or after >

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

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

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

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

# 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.