Well, if you already have a DHT running, why not allow users to publish their public keys using their e-mail address as the key?
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 17:51 +0530, K.S.Sreeram wrote: > Hi All > > As I had mentioned in my earlier post, I'm working on a decentralized > communication system, where every user is identified by his RSA key. A > DHT is used to map the user's public key to his network location (ip > address). A user's contact list basically is just a list of public keys. > > It has a pretty easy to use GUI, where I can just right click on any > contact and choose 'Remote Desktop', and I get a secure NAT/firewall > friendly VNC session established. Similarly secure chat and filetransfer > are available too. > > One of the biggest stumbling blocks that will hinder mass adoption of > this product is the fact that users need to manually exchange their > public keys (e.g thru email), before they can communicate with each other. > > I'm at a loss of ideas on how to tackle this problem. Right now i'm > contemplating having a central key-server (some what like pgp key > servers), which is used to fetch public keys when a user adds contacts. > This is probably the simplest approach, but it does break the technical > purity of a 'completely decentralized system'. > > Does anybody have any ideas on how this ease-of-use problem can be solved? > > Regards > Sreeram > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > _______________________________________________ > Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: > http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences
