content: I always wondered how people managed to get onion addresses with their names in it.    https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot Apparently (on a 1.5Ghz Processor), a 7 character customization (like "kickass") would take a whole day, after that it starts ramping up exponentially, with 8 character taking 25 days and 14 characters (almost a complete address) would take about 2.6 million years.  Now, you can probably cut these times in half if you have a multi-core processor above 2.0GHz, but still, over a million years for one hash is no joke. Even with a dedicated farm to process the hash this would still take years.    Cryptography is crazy shit, man.