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324 points BSDobelix | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 10:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
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PhilipRoman ◴[16 Nov 24 15:04 UTC] No.42156775[source]▶
I really like the idea of address being derived from public key, but there is a problem with this approach - since Yggdrasil currently uses IPv6 addresses, the length is very limited and you can find collisions (there is a workaround which involves brute forcing a key with more leading bits). As I understand, the long term plan is adding a custom protocol which has no limits for address length.
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1. Retr0id ◴[16 Nov 24 15:20 UTC] No.42156869[source]▶
My napkin math says it'd be plausible to generate a pair of colliding addresses (birthday paradox etc.), but still implausible to collide with the set of existing in-use addresses. How much would the former actually matter, in the context of Yggdrasil?