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> Wouldn't it be better if the address was the hash of the public key?

It IS the hash of the public key...

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This is a public key hash:

aaaac6rxjmmenb7m5txgpe3nmmrrh4z4ohcr7sxqkrvbk4csbrrorpw7.key

Snow lets you use it like an address...

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Yeah, no.. Gruez meant the actual IP(v6) address.

@gruez, The length of an IPv4 address would not allow for a future-proof-enough address length. IPv6 might just do it, I can't say.

@y0ghur7_xxx, Let's say I want to expose some snow-unaware service via snow to only a single host. I have no way to set up an iptables rule to do that atm. "When you resolve a key name an address is assigned to that key. The address remains assigned to the key as long as there is traffic, but never for less time than the TTL on the DNS record and never for less than 5 minutes (and generally for much longer than that)."




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