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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: SilkForum on August 18, 2011, 09:01 pm

Title: Non-Cryptic Domain Name for SR
Post by: SilkForum on August 18, 2011, 09:01 pm
I don't see how the cryptic URL for Silk Road is supposed to help prevent spoofing and hence abuse of stolen account information!
I propose to use a short and easy to remember URL and some kind of secret key verification that you are indeed conected to SR. I also wonder why SR pages (even this forum) aren't encrypted (https:)?
Title: Re: Non-Cryptic Domain Name for SR
Post by: todamnhellit on August 18, 2011, 09:32 pm
That's just how .onion domains work.
Title: Re: Non-Cryptic Domain Name for SR
Post by: Rook on August 18, 2011, 09:56 pm
I don't see how the cryptic URL for Silk Road is supposed to help prevent spoofing and hence abuse of stolen account information!
I propose to use a short and easy to remember URL and some kind of secret key verification that you are indeed conected to SR. I also wonder why SR pages (even this forum) aren't encrypted (https:)?

Can someone please take this guys username away from him.  I can't tell if he's a troll or just hopeless, but either way he should not be traipsing these forums under the guise that he is somehow affiliated with the place.
Title: Re: Non-Cryptic Domain Name for SR
Post by: bash on August 18, 2011, 11:45 pm
It's the way tor hidden services work - I think the name is automatically generated.
https is not necessary because all traffic is encrypted end-to-end in an onion.

And, I'm not calling you dumb or anything, but is the silk road url REALLY that hard to memorise...?

here we go.......  ian (like the name)... xz6z...   efk (like JFK)...   72...   ulzz (like lulz).  Simple!

Read and repeat a few times and you're sorted :) :) :)

Title: Re: Non-Cryptic Domain Name for SR
Post by: biscuitbase on August 23, 2011, 01:05 am
Thanks for the memory coaching! I just bookmark the site.