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GPU-based Onion Hash generator

9 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2014-07-02 · latest 2021-10-13

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    Generate vanity PGP keys with custom fingerprints (2017)
    story by WayToDoor · 2021-10-13 · 1 comment
  2. …You can also use them to generate keys with vanity fingerprints, which is pretty funny [1]. [0] https://github.com/lachesis/scallion [1] I have 0xDE4444AAAAAAAAAA, took me 5 minutes of bruteforcing on a laptop.
    comment by WayToDoor · 2021-10-13 · in How does apt render its fancy progress bar?
  3. …or "xxxxxx" can be found almost instantaneously; "xxxxxxxxx" should be doable given an hour or two. https://github.com/lachesis/scallion
    comment by duskwuff · 2018-12-03 · in Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
  4. …take 2.6 million years. There is also a GPU version which should be an order of magnitude faster: https://github.com/lachesis/scallion/blob/gpg/README.md Also, technically. the onion addresses not public keys, but derived from a public…
    comment by flashmob · 2017-10-13 · in Someone Created a Tor Hidden Service to Phish My Tor Hidden Service
  5. …to generate vanity Tor onion addresses in a more efficient manner (taking advantage of your GPU): https://github.com/lachesis/scallion
    comment by finnn · 2017-01-19 · in Introducing ProtonMail's Tor hidden service
  6. Scallion ( https://github.com/lachesis/scallion ) works really good for this. It uses OpenCL to leverage your GPU's to make cracking really fast.
    comment by agartner · 2015-11-30 · in GuessTor: Brute-forces .onion domains
  7. …for a company as large as Facebook and does not suggest a weakness in the .onion scheme. [1] https://github.com/lachesis/scallion [2] https://github.com/lachesis/scallion#speed--performance [3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0032F63TW [4]…
    comment by tyho · 2014-10-31 · in Making Connections to Facebook More Secure
  8. …trying to brute force that onion address. EDIT: Ok looks like they went the backronym route [0] https://github.com/lachesis/scallion [1] https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot
    comment by untrothy · 2014-10-31 · in Making Connections to Facebook More Secure
  9. …down to brute force, so the difficulty depends on the length. https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot https://github.com/lachesis/scallion
    comment by sirsar · 2014-07-02 · in Protecting Your Anonymity: A How-to for Sex Workers