Perhaps RFC 1751 would be easily adaptable.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1751 -- steve On 2/24/12 3:36 AM, "Ahmed Hassan" <ah...@linuxism.com> wrote: >Hello Folks, > >I have a cool idea to make onion addresses memorable. That will have no >effect on its authenticity and security. > > >First, I need to define some terms I will use in this email. > >Σ*_{e}: is any English (or any other language) word. > >D*: is a set of all English words (or any other language again) in >dictionary. > >D*_{N}: N means the location of element Σ* in D*. > >For example, if D* = { 'cat', 'hat' ,'rat' }. >D*_{0} returns 'cat', and D*_{'cat'} returns 0 > >max(D*): is a total number of words in a dictionary D*. > >I hope you didn't get confused at this point. > > >Onion address needs to be converted to decimal instead of base 32 to >make it easier to implement. > >Let's say I have already have a value of onion address converted to a >decimal. That number is 2025107508922. > >I will take that number and convert it to number in base max(D*). > >If we have 51236 words in English dictionary, the result of that >conversion will be only 3 digits numbers. The numbers after conversion >are the following: > >771-22133-48918 > >Here is a wolframalpha conversion link >http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2025107508922++convert+to+base >+51236 > >I used dash "-" instead of colons ":" to separate the converted digits. >It's easier to make it work with the URL (URL uses colon to separate >address from port) , and easier to convert to the original value. > > >We will take 711, 22133 and 48918 and return the Σ*_{e} from D*. Where >Σ*_{e} is an English word, and D* is a dictionary. > >So, D*_{771}: returns Σ*_{e}', and D*_{22133}: returns different >Σ*_{e}'' and so on. > >At the end we will have something like that: > >Σ*_{e}' - Σ*_{e}'' - Σ*_{e}^(3).onion > >If Σ*_{e}' is equal to 'cat', Σ*_{e}'' ( '' means another word) is >equal to 'rat' and Σ*_{e}^(3) is equal to 'hat'. The final result will >be something like this > >cat-rat-hat.onion. > > >To convert back again to the original SHA hash value, all we have to do >is to return a number from D*_{Σ*_{e}} for each word, and convert it >back again to the original base. > > >Users will not have an option to explicitly choose onion domain name, >but they will have an option to generate a lot of keys, and choose >something they like. > > >-- >Ahmed Hassan <ah...@linuxism.com> > >_______________________________________________ >tor-talk mailing list >tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk