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Corrected to Base32
Jens Kubieziel
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The creation of the hostname is described in rend-spec, the Tor Rendezvous Specification. The name is build from the public key of the service. First this key gets hashed with SHA-1. The first 80 bits of the output are encoded with Base32 (see RFC 4648 for a description). The result is the hostname of your hidden service.

Jens Kubieziel
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