Re: [Cryptography] Why not the DNS? (was Re: Implementations, attacks on DHTs, Mix Nets?)

2013-08-29 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:43:24 -0400 Jerry Leichter wrote: > On Aug 28, 2013, at 8:34 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:39:51 -0400 Jerry Leichter > > wrote: > >> It's not as if this isn't a design we have that we know works: > >> DNS. > Read what I said: There's a *design*

Re: [Cryptography] Why not the DNS? (was Re: Implementations, attacks on DHTs, Mix Nets?)

2013-08-28 Thread Jerry Leichter
On Aug 28, 2013, at 8:34 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:39:51 -0400 Jerry Leichter > wrote: >> It's not as if this isn't a design we have that we know works: >> DNS. Read what I said: There's a *design* that works. I never suggested *using DNS* - either its current physica

[Cryptography] Why not the DNS? (was Re: Implementations, attacks on DHTs, Mix Nets?)

2013-08-28 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:39:51 -0400 Jerry Leichter wrote: > It's not as if this isn't a design we have that we know works: > DNS. As I said elsewhere: as a practical matter, almost no one using email is a DNS administrator. This therefore cannot possibly deploy in finite time for the average user.