On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Tony Arcieri <[email protected]> wrote: > tl;dr: a Bitcoin-like global append-only log can enable the secure mapping > of human-meaningful names to cryptographic keys
You are still trusting a third party — a P2P network and the computational effort it represents, in this case — and in addition have a non-trivial monetary cost of entry once the system resembles anything scalable. So you have to both pay money (with all the implications on anonymity and ease of use, among other things) to have a meaningful name, and reduce your address security to one of exploit resistance of some buggy DHT implementation running on nodes you have no control of. “Proof of work” is a great academic pastime of theoretical hand-waving over hard problems, but if anyone thinks that something like Tor bug #4666 [1] has any future, they are delusional. [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4666 -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
