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i'm not sure what man-in-the-middle attacks we were worried about,

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but i agree that we don't need to worry about them for rendezvousing.
what we really meant was collision attacks. i think?


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2. Generate a 16-character encoding of H', using base32 as defined
in RFC 3548.
(We only use 80 bits instead of the 160 bits from SHA1 because we don't
need to worry about man-in-the-middle attacks, and because it will make
handling the url's more convenient.)
(We only use 80 bits instead of the 160 bits from SHA1 because we
don't need to worry about arbitrary collisions, and because it will
make handling the url's more convenient.)
The string "x", if present, is the base-32 encoding of the
authentication/authorization required by the introduction point.