Show HN: Fast Tor Onion Service vanity address generator
6 hours ago
- #Tor
- #cryptography
- #vanity-address
- Tool generates Tor Onion Service v3 vanity addresses with specified prefixes.
- Install via Go or Docker with commands provided.
- Fast search algorithm (~45M keys/sec on a laptop), 2x faster than mkp224o.
- Finds 6-character prefixes in under a minute; each extra character increases time by 32x.
- Address derived from ed25519 public key; tool generates keys until prefix matches.
- Optimized with batch field inversion and y-coordinate-only calculations for efficiency.
- Includes steps to configure hidden service keypair and restart Tor.
- Related tools: vanity25519, wireguard-vanity-key, age-vanity-keygen.