[tor-dev] UX improvement proposal #2: Encrypted bookmarks for onions

heddha

2017-11-16 14:10:25 UTC

Hello George, Hello List,

I'm currently working on a Uni project where we tried to implement 3 of
the solutions suggested in the article you mentioned below. I
implemented the bookmarks idea (2.5). You can find the code here:

https://github.com/heddha/OnionPetnames

I implemented it as a webextension, not as part of the native bookmarks.
The entries can be exported and imported; the exported file is
aes-encrypted with a password; I used the cryptojs-library for that. The
import function has its bugs, as a webextension closes itself
automagically when another window (e.g. to select a file) is opened; I
used a workaround that's very dirty, maybe someone has a better idea?

I'd be very happy if this helped with the problem!

Kind regards,

heddha

Post by George Kadianakis
Hello,
here is another onion-related UX improvement proposal. We still don't
have a plan for how to concretely fix the onion naming issue, and we
recently released next gen onions so names just got bigger. Ideally we
should start experimenting with solutions sooner than later (also see
https://blog.torproject.org/cooking-onions-names-your-onions).
I think a local-solution akin to bookmarks makes sense to start with, so
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24310
Please let me know if you are aware of firefox addon projects that do
encrypted bookmarks that we could use or start basing our work on.
Cheers!
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