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comboy on Oct 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion...

I wonder why namecoin addresses are not a part of the tor yet. Onion urls should be treated more like IPs.

jerheinze on Oct 27, 2017 [–]

It's in their works, see their proposal 279: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/279...

As well as this blog post: https://blog.torproject.org/cooking-onions-names-your-onions

See also this ticket for following the progress: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10747

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