On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:19 AM, Scurvy Scott wrote: > I'm sure this has been asked on here before but: > > Is it "possible" to basically brute force tor hidden services by simply > visiting every possible .onion address and then indexing the ones that are > active? Yes all 32^16 possibilities.. Is there possibly another way to do > this? Perhaps by contacting the public key hash database mentioned at: > https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en > for instance? > > I know for a fact that such an index would be completely unwanted but I'm > talking theoretically. > > We'll see what types of responses we get.
Pure brute force, that's 2^80 attempts. If you could try 1 trillion addresses per second, you'd be at it a little less than 40,000 years. I don't think brute force is the approach you should be looking for. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk