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Kroovy's Phlog |
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# Thoughts on the Gopher Onion Initiative |
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I don't want to repeat the prudential words that are already written |
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down at bitreich.org: |
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The Gopher Onion Initiative (bitreich.org) |
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...so, in a nutshell: |
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Onion services are indeed the obvious choice to go for, in order to host |
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a gopherhole (and visit them!). |
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## Broken usability |
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My daily gopher workflow looks like this: |
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Typing the word "sacc" into the commandline and adding a memorizable |
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domain name right behind it. |
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Press "Enter". |
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Fine. |
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There is my page. |
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But how can this work with onion addresses? They are long to type and |
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far beyond from being easy to memorize. The length will extend even more |
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of the torproject switches to an address length of 54 characters, as |
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tthey plan. |
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## Fixing usability |
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There is a solution. |
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Everybody should use tools like eschalot to mine themselves an onion |
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address. That way, at least the beginning of an address is memorizable. |
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For example, if you would like to visit my gopherhole, you would use |
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"kroovybwbzaagcen.onion". |
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Once that is achieved, we can use the tab completion of our shell to do |
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the nasty part of the onion address. I already hacked an example using |
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bash. It utilizes the compgen command in combination with a simple |
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bookmark-file that contains all of the onion addresses you visit (one |
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address per line). |
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You can check out the code that has to be added to your .bashrc here: |
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code |
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And also check out eschalot, which enables you to mine your own address: |
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eschalot - onion address miner (https://github.com) |
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You can check out my asciinema recording. It displays the tab completion |
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workflow very well: |
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my asciinema recording (https://asciinema.org) |
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\\ \ \ \ \_ |
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/ / \ (Berrito) |
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