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- <h1>Workflow, fairies, and aeronautical, advertised sorrows</h1>
- <p>Day 00271: Thursday, 2015 December 03</p>
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- I went through my password database to make sure that all my public accounts are listed on my <a href="/en/a/contact.xhtml">contact page</a>.
- I came across my Geocaching account, but I do not want to link to the Geocaching website though, as they do not allow logging over <abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr>.
- I was about to delete my account, but instead, decided to open a <a href="https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=request.check&id=642567gmeeju">support ticket</a> about the issue.
- Depending on how they respond, I will either add my Geocaching account to the list of places to find me or I will close the account.
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- My search for a way to create decent onion address keys continues.
- Today, I came up with a new solution, one that is much more automated than my last.
- Previously, I was throwing a dictionary at eschalot and having it use word list mode to find onion addresses in which the first eight or more characters form a word.
- This has the obvious disadvantage that the end of the onion address is still random and often unreadable.
- The onion addresses generated must all be reviewed for readability by hand.
- I tried compressing an entire dictionary into a regular expression so I could require that the pattern of words repeat from beginning to end, but the regular expression was too large and eschalot could not handle that much input.
- My new solution is to instead focus on only words that are four characters long.
- between the fact that only so many four-letter words exist and the fact that the onion address's second level is divisible by four so I do not need to include words of another length, the regular expression was kept small enough for eschalot to handle.
- I tried using eight-character words instead of four-character words for better memorability, but that regular expression was too large.
- I was able to include all available sixteen-character words in my four-character word regular expression though, so if eschalot chances upon such a rare gem, it will not just be thrown out.
- While I still think that my solution needs some major reworking before it can be considered the optimal choice, it is the first solution that I have come up with that I feel is worth sharing.
- I call it <a href="https://notabug.org/y.st./fouroni">fouroni</a>; "four" being a reference to the fact that it uses four four-letter words and "oni" being the only three letters in the <code>//onion.</code> <abbr title="Top Level Domain">TLD</abbr>.
- It actually spits out onion addresses at a reasonable rate, too; you only have to wait a few minutes to get your first address key.
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- Before touching up fouroni enough to upload, I mentioned my new solution to creating readable onion addresses on <a href="ircs://irc.oftc.net:6697/%23tor">#tor</a>.
- Only one person responded, and cacahuatl did not thing that it was a good idea.
- Instead, cacahuatl thought the proper solution was to translate onion addresses from their naturally-unreadable state into some sort of human-recognizable code, for lack of a better term.
- The idea is to convert each onion address into a <a href="https://github.com/0xcaca0/leekspeak">phrase of five English words</a> that can be translated back losslessly.
- The project that accomplishes this appears to be derived from a project that losslessly translates an onion addresses into a <a href="https://github.com/corcra/leekspeak">phrase of six English words</a>, though as the license of the newer project is incompatible with that of the first project, it may be a complete recoding of the project.
- When I mentioned that this solution would be great for verifying onion addresses but would not help with hyperlinks or Web browser address bars, cacahuatl said that this should be fixed with a Web browser plugin.
- I disagree.
- If a Web browser plugin is used, it will mean writing pages that depend on nonstandard domains.
- Instead, what should happen if this method of making onion addresses readable is to be used, is write them into <abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr>'s <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr> handler itself.
- For example, if leekspeak translates <code>authorednansyxlu.onion</code> into the phrase "workflow fairies aeronautical advertised sorrows", perhaps <abbr title="The Onion Router">Tor</abbr> should map <code>workflow-fairies-aeronautical-advertised-sorrows.leek.onion</code> to <code}>authorednansyxlu.onion</code>.
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