We couldn't be happier that one of the most recognized human rights organizations has adopted an onion service to provide greater online protections for those seeking information, support, and advocacy. Amnesty's choice to offer an onion version of their website underlines the role of this open source privacy technology as a vital tool in our shared work of advancing human rights.
🧅 amnestyl337aduwuvpf57irfl54ggtnuera45ygcxzuftwxjvvmpuzqd.onion
ℹ️https://blog.torproject.org/amnesty-international-launches-onion-service/
@torproject can anyone help me understand why the .onion address needs to be so human-unfriendly and not simply amnesty.onion?
@voxel @torproject thank you. Your response helped me look up a bit more information regarding further doubts I had
@mapto @torproject Onion addresses are based on hashes of public keys.
Tor v2 addresses were much shorther than v3, but also insecure.
@mapto @torproject
Because this is not just a website domain, this is a public key involved in the process of obtaining an end-to-end encryption. More here: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/overview/
@corl3ss @torproject ok, then the weird thing is that the address starts meaningful :)
@mapto @torproject it just requires to bruteforce the address to match the needed keys. A lot of people do that (as we did http://oignonspeuuqi7ovpov7srtuhpqut2vgt7lcmenfwwvjgjnbbsx4qeyd.onion/ ). It is nicer than a full ramdom address :)
@mapto@qoto.org @torproject@mastodon.social Because the onion service address is an ed25519 cryptographic public key. Tor browser don't do regular DNS A/AAAA when it lookup onion service addresses.
Special Hostnames in Tor:
https://spec.torproject.org/address-spec
@mapto @torproject Yes, it's due how .onion sites work, you're aren't directly connecting to the server of amnesty instead your're connection to another row of 3 Tor nodes. The complicated domain tells your browser where connect to, which usually would do a DNS server or the host file (on Windows).