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Sure do. Login/password with a self-signed cert. Id have preferred to go with a proper cert attached to hash.onion , but evidently only Facebook can afford such luxuries...

In a side note, I thought about using OnionBalancer, a DB, and Boulder, and making my own OnionCA and talking with the EFF about funding assistance. Frankly, no CA just stinks, and I want to do something about it. I do know that the onionhash is the last 15 characters in the hidden site public key... but there has to be a better way than this.




There's really no need for a certificate on an onion name - onion names are already the hash of your public key. Tor validates everything for that already and if someone else can compromise your onion name, they could just produce a certificate for it anyways.

Unlike with regular http vs SSL, Tor provides confidentiality, integrity and host authentication integrated simply by connecting to the right name.




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