> Isn't using "fingerprint" not a bit misleading since it is not the output of > a hash function but the ed25519 master public key itself?
Hi nusenu, that's fair. We've begun to conflate a couple concepts here... * Relay operators, controllers, DirPorts, etc all require a canonical relay identifier. They don't care how it's derived as long as it's unique to the relay. * Relays publish a public ed25519 key. This is an implementation detail that isn't of interest to the above populations. I'd advise against attempting to rename "fingerprint". That hasn't gone well for hidden services [1]. But with that aside, relay identifiers and the representation of ed25519 public keys don't necessarily need to be one and the same. [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25918 _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev