TRTrung0246·Oct 31, 2025
Unfortunately I got a hard crash on go 1.25.3 when running this: https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/onion-vanity-address/i...
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onion-vanity-address
Fast Tor Onion Service vanity address generator
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5 sourcesIndeed, be careful with anything that involves secret bits.
This tool uses proper crypto/rand initialisation of the starting key https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/onion-vanity-address/b...
Check out my other vanity generators (they all use crypto/rand):
https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/wireguard-vanity-key
https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/age-vanity-keygen
https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/ethereum-vanity-addres...
In Spinning Up an Onion Mirror Is Stupid EasyYou can generate yourself a vanity .onion address using https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/onion-vanity-address tool.
It can also generate vanity client authorization keypair.
In Spinning Up an Onion Mirror Is Stupid EasyIt 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...
In Show HN: Fast Tor Onion Service vanity address generatorShow HN: Fast Tor Onion Service vanity address generator
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!
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