Indeed.  ++(future because I don’t want to run out).


I do hope that onion v3 will last a long time.  The address format (a straight-up 25519 key, plus some little metadata—a 126-bit security level, barring new ECDLP solution or a way to run Shor’s Algorithm) was designed with the kind of forward-looking security margin that v2 never had when it was designed (80-bit truncated SHA-1 hash of a 1024-bit RSA key; WTF were they thinking!?).  Unless a practical quantum computer develops, I see no reason to expect v3 to become insecure—although of course, advances in cryptography may yield some reason to also add a v4.


I saw that when the thread began with the new signature and avatar, long before theymos appeared.  I don’t know; but given the cat’s characteristic sense of humour (and see also what I said above about “rampant speculation”), I am guessing that it may have something to do with this, which should be savoured full-sized if I do say so myself:

Subject: Skynet to nullius: “GIVE ME YOUR ADDRESS THERE”