On 11/02/2013 02:31 AM, [email protected] wrote:
On Saturday, November 02, 2013 01:22:02 AM Maxim Kammerer wrote:
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.
And you still have problems with phishing thanks to being able to "register" a
similar domain.
Of course, despite its shortcomings, namecoin is better than the existing
"global namespaces" which are outright run by hostile entities.
Global namespaces seem to be a solution looking for a problem though. In the
world full of QR codes and text messaging, sharing your unique ID is not a
problem, bookmarking/address book handles assigning a memorable name or even
several descriptive names.
You don't see a difference between a billboard with a fake QR code
pasted over the real one, and a billboard where the email addy has been
vandalized to read "@gnail.com?
Until most folks can dissassemble, inspect and reassemble the device
they own as easily as Gomer Pyle did with his rifle in "Full Metal
Jacket", I think they need to stick with human readable addresses.
Jonathan
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