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mahrud on June 7, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing DNS Resolver for Tor

Also, farming an onion with that many fixed characters takes a good few hundreds or thousands of years.

zaarn on June 7, 2018 [–]

This is a v3 onion service, it should be easier to find prefixes, plus CF (and other companies like FB) have done pretty long prefixes via brute force (they have a lot of computers)

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