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0 pointsgjjrfcbugxbhf9y ago0 comments

Cool good to know. I guess next best would be done type of trusted directory listing - maybe orgs could somehow sign their entries on a directory page? The directory could put redirects for signed services in their path namespace. Meaning people would need

Vanityurlfordirservice.onion/facebook

To access the service.

Or is this also impossible?

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lucb1e9y ago· 1 in thread

Then you might as well use the normal web. DNS is basically a directory listing with IP addresses to connect to, like a phone book; or a "trusted directory listing" as you say. Onion addresses are public keys which somehow find their way to a rendezvous point (I forgot the details).

gjjrfcbugxbhfOP9y ago

But having accepted that DNS is impossible I'm now suggesting actual redirects (as in HTTP 301 or 302) rather than DNS.

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