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age123456gpg • last Sunday at 3:24 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

You can get yourself a vanity key using https://github.com/AlexanderYastrebov/wireguard-vanity-key tool:

   % wireguard-vanity-key -prefix=NAS/
   private                                      public                                       attempts   duration   attempts/s
   EiBsDB8zt/G4+VWGvxW2ZznNXYmcslcIyJimNR2PpF4= NAS/aex8+IFzLePBYVNGMsSo/1/XeUZcam+Hn8wbNB4= 22619537   0s         112587360

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hnarn • last Monday at 12:45 PM

While it's cool, something about vanity keys in general stroke me the wrong way. I feel like in principle you should never use a very short part of a public key for ocular identification, and it attempts to solve something that should be solved outside of wireguard, i.e. the "friendly naming" of public keys.

bschmidt25002 • last Sunday at 9:02 PM

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