El 19/08/11 11:43, [email protected] dijo: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:34:34PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > > Hi. I'd like to understand how these human readable names that we're > > going to insert into a DHT are going to work from a security standpoint. > > > > What stops me from taking your name? What stops me from taking names > > similar to yours? > > > > I'm skeptical of the advisability of globally scoped non-hierarchically > > registered human readable names and would like to understand the service > > model and goals for this proposal. > > I'm not sure someone will have a good answer to this question, as you > raise an issue that is for sure not that easy to solve (also called > nowadays the Zooko triangle). > > You can find some resources on the page I creates yesterday: > http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/DistributedNaming. Or maybe is because > of this page that you are asking? > > I2p has an interesting way to solve this issue: it uses a pure DHT > (kadmelia) as a backend, and on top of that people use so called > "Adressbooks", which enable them to put "petnames" on entries of this DHT. > There is one global addressbook, but people can override it with their > local one. This personnal adressbooks can also be shared, so that you can > use the addressbook of a friend that is in your WOT and then call different > remotes the with the same name than your friend. > > http://www.i2p2.de/naming.html and > http://www.i2p2.de/naming_discussion.html > > Seems like a lot of use believe that the DNS has too many issues that > conflict with FBX project, so an alternative naming scheme should be > investigated. > > bert.
If names can be claimed by using openpgp and trust paths can be figured out by keysigning, why not use it for distributed domain name registration? -- Salud! Nicolás Reynolds, xmpp:[email protected] omb:http://identi.ca/fauno OTR: C0CB1F0F 01DB5E18 2D634C2A A4626858 E7C7C3A2 http://parabolagnulinux.org http://endefensadelsl.org "Freedom [...] is messy" ~ Eben Moglen
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