[feat]: Generate vanity V2 and V3 onion URLS for TOR

[RasheedAZ]

Prerequisites

• I have searched for existing issues that already suggest this feature.

Describe the Feature Request

Hi. Thanks for the awesome work you all are doing :) Just came here after listening to Matt's talk on Denver BitDevs and Value Stack channels.

I understand that this is similar in function to OnionShare's ability to host websites on TOR...

Would it be possible to add functionality to generate vanity V2 and V3 onion URLS for TOR sites being hosted?

Describe the Use Case

I personally prefer the V2 address despite it's drawbacks

This is because for normal users

• their threat model is not that high,
• they just want to put up a simple static website online without going through DNS and paying the associated costs,
• the 16 character length means it can easily be memorised and shared verbally, and now
• some normal browsers like Brave highlight a button to open a website in their TOR window if you land on an onion site

Therefore v2 should be enough and it has the potential to revolutionise website creation and hosting.

Students and people who can't afford a domain name can put their sites online and share their work easily and just tell people to open it in Brave or Tor browsers.

So the goal here is not top-notch privacy, anonymity and security, it's more like usability, adoption and independence from DNS.

Describe Preferred Solution

I haven't read up much on this except this old post:
https://opensource.com/article/19/8/how-create-vanity-tor-onion-address

and this is the official TOR Project page on it:
https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/vanity-addresses/

Describe Alternatives

The only other thing I know are Lokinet addresses but then I think you have to buy their token and I'm not sure how to host websites on the that network.

Anything else?

Thanks for making StartOS FOSS!