24 Jan
2017
24 Jan
'17
5:15 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:40:00PM +0000, segfault wrote:
But maybe it would help to separate them into groups of 4 characters, separated maybe by a dash, which would make them look like this:
tbi5-tdxb-osio-tpha-wjyu-7f5p-w5tl-nvbv-fjrj-7mes-kbsn-wr2b-qbu2-t4gg.onion
Check out https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15622 for more discussion of this idea.
I think the main problem with it is that we'd have to pick, and stick to, a particular format. The "let people add hyphens wherever they think it improves usability for them" option has all sorts of unexpected side effects when client-side apps accidentally reveal the hyphenation choice.
--Roger