2 Aug
2020
2 Aug
'20
3:08 a.m.
Isn't using "fingerprint" not a bit misleading since it is not the output of a hash function but the ed25519 master public key itself?
Hi nusenu, that's fair. We've begun to conflate a couple concepts here...
* Relay operators, controllers, DirPorts, etc all require a canonical relay identifier. They don't care how it's derived as long as it's unique to the relay.
* Relays publish a public ed25519 key. This is an implementation detail that isn't of interest to the above populations.
I'd advise against attempting to rename "fingerprint". That hasn't gone well for hidden services [1]. But with that aside, relay identifiers and the representation of ed25519 public keys don't necessarily need to be one and the same.