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322 points BSDobelix | 2 comments | 16 Nov 24 10:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | 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. neilalexander ◴[16 Nov 24 16:43 UTC] No.42157301[source]▶
Truncating the public key to fit in an IPv6 address isn’t totally ideal, agreed, but for now it means that just about any existing IPv6-capable application will work over Yggdrasil without modification, which is a nice property for a testnet.
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2. Retr0id ◴[16 Nov 24 18:59 UTC] No.42158362[source]▶
What about truncating a hash of the whole public key? (what's what I'd assumed was happening already)