Very similar is the EFF Sovereign Keys idea. It basically aimed to be a mix of Namecoin and CT, without the necessity of huge blockchains. https://git.eff.org/?p=sovereign-keys.git;a=blob;f=sovereign-key-design.txt;hb=master
On 20 August 2014 21:39, Tony Arcieri <[email protected]> wrote: > Key compromise is the biggest worry to me. If you lose a private key > associated with a name, control of the name is irrevocably controlled to the > attacker. Other systems like OpenPGP might answer this with revocation > messages which are created at the same time as the key. I'm not sure if > Namecoin has anything like that. SK attempts to address this. Borrow from them, assume Namecoin, and then add the ability to delegate, and say "If I publish a revocation certificate with this key, only the following entities are allowed to re-register a certificate for me: aclu.org, versign.com". It also has notes about preventing DoS by someone registering for you without you consent [0] and a few others. -tom [0] https://git.eff.org/?p=sovereign-keys.git;a=blob;f=issues/transitional-considerations.txt;h=fa3b1591820baf1f2f62740f1f0e8b7998c29174;hb=HEAD _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
