Hi! On 2014-02-20 08:34, David Benfell wrote: > On 2014-02-19 23:12, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> It's not necessary that it become official. After all, the HKP >> keyserver protocol isn't documented in RFC4880. It's just necessary >> that it become a de-facto standard way of querying for keys. If/when it >> becomes a de-facto standard, GnuPG will quickly add support for it as a >> keyserver protocol, and Enigmail will follow suit. > > I'm not a developer either. That said, when I look at namecoin, I see a > mess that is a long ways from widespread support. The bitcoin protocol > (upon which namecoin is based) apparently has problems, which I *don't > think* impact namecoin, but suggest that bitcoin itself needs to mature > a bit (which has implications for all of its derivatives).
The "problems" in Bitcoin that recently surfaced have been known since a long time and only affect certain, discouraged use-cases and Bitcoin exchanges with bugs in their software and workflows. The principle technical "problem" is also present in Namecoin, but it doesn't affect the security of name storage or anything a user usually encounters at all. I do not claim that Namecoin has widespread support, but I believe that it solves a problem that, from what I've heard, a lot of people outside the Namecoin community believe is "unsolvable" (Zooko's triangle and secure exchange of public keys). So my personal opinion is that it would be great to have (fully optional!) experimental support for this feature in Enigmail or a related tool where it could really make a difference for key exchanges. But of course I understand that this is probably a controversial subject and there are good arguments for not adding it to Enigmail (yet). That's why I came here to discuss the idea first. If there's no other way, I may actually indeed start with a fork to try things out and let others test it and see how people like it, but as mentiond in another email, I think this would be cumbersome since I would also have to maintain the fork and keep up with upstream releases even when not related to my own additions. This is what I've done with pidgin-otr also, for instance. (But since they are currently discussing merging OTR right into Pidgin proper, I've not maintained that and will wait for the final result of these changes first.) Yours, Daniel -- http://www.domob.eu/ OpenPGP: 901C 5216 0537 1D2A F071 5A0E 4D94 6EED 04F7 CF52 Namecoin: id/domob -> https://nameid.org/?name=domob -- Done: Arc-Bar-Cav-Hea-Kni-Ran-Rog-Sam-Tou-Val-Wiz To go: Mon-Pri _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
