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Re:Dataset of classified screenshots from Tor hidden services by mpfundstein on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:29PM (#20413508)
How do you own it ?
Re:Dataset of classified screenshots from Tor hidden services by Diederich on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:34PM (#20413539)
Your domain is a predictable derivative of your hidden node's key, which is randomly generated. It's cryptographically impossible for the same domain to be created more than once.
Re:Dataset of classified screenshots from Tor hidden services by superkuh on Thursday July 11, 2019 @06:10PM (#20416366)
Yup. Further, you can generate billions of keys until you find one where the public key matches some sequence you define beforehand. I brute forced one that starts with "superkuh". It only takes some tens of minutes to an hour or two on a GPU from 2010.

As long as you keep the private keys private you get traffic to that public key and "own" the domain.

Re:Dataset of classified screenshots from Tor hidden services by creatornator on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:48PM (#20413702)
Not impossible, just unlikely. Collisions can exist in theory in any hashing algorithm (though it may be a 2^2048 large address space or something)
Re:Dataset of classified screenshots from Tor hidden services by Dylan16807 on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:24PM (#20414732)
Which is what "cryptographically impossible" means. Even with all the computation on the planet for a million years you can't get a glimmer of a chance.
Re:Dataset of classified screenshots from Tor hidden services by hiccuphippo on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:37PM (#20413577)
You generate a public/private keypair for your service. Your domain is a short hash of your public key. Whomever owns the private key, owns the domain name.