dgkozv5myc3lfpedjl2khhk6icok2xm5wmc5vg42xvbyh4fs345mopyd.onionWhat the string reports
Computed fields
- Full address
- dgkozv5myc3lfpedjl2khhk6icok2xm5wmc5vg42xvbyh4fs345mopyd.onion
- Characters before .onion
- 56
- Characters including suffix
- 62
- Alphabet check
- pass · no 0, 1, 8 or 9
- Letters
- 43
- Digits
- 13 · 23.2% of the string
- Distinct symbols used
- 25 of 32
- Symbols never used
- a n q r t u 7
- Most frequent symbol
- k · 4 times
- Longest run of one character
- 2 · h
- Opens with the market name
- no
- Longest prefix shared with another address here
- 0 · none
The middle is the part nobody reads
Ask someone to check an onion address and watch what they do. They read the first few characters, their eye jumps, and they read the last few. The middle gets a glance at best. This is not laziness, it is how people handle any long identifier, from card numbers to commit hashes. The ends are short enough to hold and the middle is not.
That behaviour is the reason this site prints the middle twenty characters of every address as a separate field. On this string that field is hhk6icok2xm5wmc5vg42, and it is the densest run of digits in the whole published set. Six digits in twenty characters, against a flat expectation closer to four.
The density is meaningless on its own. What matters is that this is the stretch where an imitation has the most freedom. Somebody producing a lookalike address has to grind for the characters they want at the front, because those are the ones people compare. Every character they win at the front costs them time. The middle costs them nothing, because nobody is going to look at it, so it is left to come out however the generator produces it.
That is the whole asymmetry. The front of a forged address is expensive and controlled. The middle is free and arbitrary. So the middle is where two strings that look alike will differ most, and it is the only part of an address where a quick check has any chance of catching a substitution. Checking the first six characters of a TorZon market url proves almost nothing. Checking characters 21 to 40 proves considerably more, and checking all 56 proves the lot.
The three zones of this string
The head carries one digit, the middle six, and the final eight three. Seven of the 32 possible symbols never appear in this address at all, the second highest number of absentees in the set.
| Zone | Characters | Value | Digits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head | 1 to 8 | dgkozv5m | 1 |
| Middle | 21 to 40 | hhk6icok2xm5wmc5vg42 | 6 |
| Tail | 49 to 56 | 345mopyd | 3 |
Questions
Why does this site print the middle twenty characters separately?
Because it is the field a reader skips and the field a forgery leaves alone. Printing it as its own value makes it as easy to compare as the ends, which is the point.
Does a digit-heavy middle indicate anything about the address?
No. It is a count, and counts vary. The reason it appears on this page is to show how much variation exists across twelve strings that were produced the same way.