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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: memCheck on January 10, 2012, 03:12 pm

Title: Silk Road URL?
Post by: memCheck on January 10, 2012, 03:12 pm
How did silk road get its new URL?
I thought .onion hostnames were randomly generated
when you set up a hidden service, is there a method to getting
your own text in the url or was it simply bruteforce/luck?
Title: Re: Silk Road URL?
Post by: QTC on January 10, 2012, 03:19 pm
There's a program called Shallot (https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot) which does it for you. But yeah, it's basically bruteforcing the hidden service descriptor assembly process.
Title: Re: Silk Road URL?
Post by: memCheck on January 10, 2012, 03:23 pm
Sweet, thanks.