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0 points0xJRS8y ago0 comments

Its something like facebookcorewwwi.onion - that must have taken a lot of cycles to generate..

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IIRC they got the "corewwwi" part instead of complete nonsense purely out of luck, when searching for just "facebook*"

It was over 100,000,000 CPU-hours https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11550922 And they still got extremely lucky to find such a good address. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8538390 It's not usually that easy.

nikcub8y ago

I found blockchainbdgpzk in just under 3 days. It was the sixth blockchain* address I found.

I ran 3x 4 GPU cloud instances on AWS on the old Teslas - which aren't very fast at SHA. IIRC it was doing 15GH/s total

Today you can get ~7GH/s on an Nvidia 1080 so you should be able to find an all-alpha 10 char onion in about a week.

The new cards and some of the password cracking rigs (i'm building a new one now) are able to do SHA1 so quickly that they're a real threat to generating phishing addresses for onions - which is why the DigiCert certificates are required

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