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1. Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 00:34:51 UTC Adrian Cochrane

   • Rysiekúr Memesson
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   • Reid

   @logan @feditips @rysiek @Reiddragon Onion addresses are selected randomly derived from public keys for authentication. Once we finally increase the bitsize of IP addresses we can do the same there.

   But domain names are meant to be human readable & globally unique. Which means they require a central authority or blockchain to allocate.

   Dropping the globally-unique requirement leads to an interesting system...

   • Rysiekúr Memesson (rysiek@mastodon.technology)'s status on Thursday, 26-May-2022 00:34:51 UTC Rysiekúr Memesson

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     @alcinnz @logan @feditips @Reiddragon exactly. Onion addresses are more like IP addresses than domain names, in how they work. In the sense that they are globally unique identifiers that are not "human-readable".

     Having IPv6 addresses allocated the way Onion addresses are (that is, based on a public key fingerprint) would be a huge win indeed: no central authority, and ability to have IPsec enabled by default for every connection.

     Interesting how it would interact with BGP.