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▲ Show HN: Fast Tor Onion Service vanity address generator(github.com)

13 points by age123456gpg 2 days ago | 3 comments

Hello,

I've built the tool to generate vanity Tor Onion Service addresses:

    $ onion-vanity-address allium
    Found allium... in 12s after 558986486 attempts (48529996 attempts/s)
    ---
    hostname: alliumdye3it7ko4cuftoni4rlrupuobvio24ypz55qpzjzpvuetzhyd.onion
    hs_ed25519_public_key: PT0gZWQyNTUxOXYxLXB1YmxpYzogdHlwZTAgPT0AAAAC1ooweCbRP6ncFQs3NRyK40fRwaodrmH572D8py+tCQ==
    hs_ed25519_secret_key: PT0gZWQyNTUxOXYxLXNlY3JldDogdHlwZTAgPT0AAAAQEW4Rhot7oroPaETlAEG3GPAntvJ1agF2c7A2AXmBW3WqAH0oUZ1hySvvZl3hc9dSAIc49h1UuCPZacOWp4vQ

The tool checks ~45'000'000 keys per second on a laptop which is ~2x faster than widely-used mkp224o https://github.com/cathugger/mkp224o

I've explained key performance difference here https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/onion-vanity-address?t...

Would love your feedback, thanks!

▲ age123456gpg 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It also supports distributed search, e.g. you can run it in Kubernetes without exposing the secret key to the cluster, see https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/onion-vanity-address?t...

▲ avidiax a day ago | parent | prev [-]

How did you learn the math used to speed up your implementation?

	▲	age123456gpg a day ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks, great question! In short: I got obsessed by making it as fast as possible and read a ton of elliptic curve cryptography papers. It was a journey that started from reading WireGuard kernel sources, then I was thinking about deriving IPv6 address from peer key, left a random comment on a dated gist https://gist.github.com/artizirk/c91e4f8c237dec07e3ad1b286f1... from which I learned about vanity key concept. I naturally enjoy doing performance optimization work so when I discovered incremental approach idea here https://github.com/warner/wireguard-vanity-address/pull/15 I decided to create my own tool. I've implemented first version of https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/wireguard-vanity-key and then continuously profiled it to improve performance. From profiling I saw that field inversion and multiplication are the main operations. I realized I need to reduce unnecessary computation to make it faster and for that I need to understand the underlying math which is actually quite simple. I read RFCs for Curve25519 and papers from D. J. Bernstein who invented it. You can see how my understanding evolved from the commit history https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/wireguard-vanity-key/c... Once I have the fastest algorithm to generate vanity Curve25519 keypairs I can apply it to other things that use Curve25519 (https://ianix.com/pub/curve25519-deployment.html) or Ed25519 (https://ianix.com/pub/ed25519-deployment.html) which is an equivalent curve. See also my other related projects: * [age-vanity-keygen](https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/age-vanity-keygen) — Fast vanity age X25519 identity generator. * [vanity25519](https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/vanity25519) — Efficient Curve25519 vanity key generator.