Part 13 - Generating a Vanity Onion Address

Archive note: This page documents the January 2016 Tor v2 onion-service setup. Read the compatibility and security warning in Part 1 before using any of this series as current guidance.

Back in 2016 I used Shallot to generate a vanity onion address and its corresponding private key.

Shallot belongs to the old v2 onion-service era: its addresses had 16 characters before .onion, and Tor retired v2 services in 2021. Modern v3 addresses have 56 characters before .onion and require different tooling, so a Shallot-generated v2 key cannot be used for a current onion service.

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