Re: Using crypto to solve a part of the DNS/TM mess

1999-03-02 Thread bram
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Bill Stewart wrote: > You can trivially run a namespace under a 2nd-level domain name, e.g. > new-name-format.namegods.com > orfoo.dyn.ml.org <- to cite a real example > without having to disrupt the worldwide naming system. Is there some way you co

Re: Using crypto to solve a part of the DNS/TM mess

1999-03-02 Thread Bill Stewart
At 04:34 PM 2/27/99 -0800, bram wrote: >Unfortunately, the problems of domain names are really ones of authority, >and the best cryptography can really do is make sure that a reasonable set >of rules are enforced smoothly, it can't fix the rules. > >The exception is that there might be a way of us

Re: Using crypto to solve a part of the DNS/TM mess

1999-03-01 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Anonymous wrote: > One way to approach this is to have an organization which will verify > contact information. A potential domain name registrant supplies his > contact information in the form of name, address, phone number, or other > identifcation. This information is ve

Re: Using crypto to solve a part of the DNS/TM mess

1999-03-01 Thread Bill Stewart
I'd look at several pieces of the problem - - what things need to be known - who needs to know them, under what conditions - what needs to be hidden from whom, under what conditions. Crypto may or may not help. Let's consider one possible non-crypto solution, and then see if crypto can help hide

Re: Using crypto to solve a part of the DNS/TM mess

1999-02-28 Thread Nick Szabo
I've been thinking for a long time about how to decentralize control over property titles, such as registries of Internet domain names, addresses, and ASNs. Some of the results can be found at http://www.best.com/~szabo/securetitle.html. My main emphasis is how to make the registries tolerant

Re: Using crypto to solve a part of the DNS/TM mess

1999-02-28 Thread bram
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: > As some of you may know, I'm involved in a little brawl about domain > names (details at http://www.law.miami.edu/~amf). > > It would be really useful to have a cryptographic solution to a part of > the problem. Unfortunat

Re: Using crypto to solve a part of the DNS/TM mess

1999-02-27 Thread Anonymous
Michael Froomkin writes: > Suppose we move to a system of Domain Name registrations in which people > can be anonymous, or pseudonymous, but at the same time wish to have some > way of identifying the people engaged in large-scale domain name > speculation. Are these ends compatible? In a world

Using crypto to solve a part of the DNS/TM mess

1999-02-27 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
As some of you may know, I'm involved in a little brawl about domain names (details at http://www.law.miami.edu/~amf). It would be really useful to have a cryptographic solution to a part of the problem. Suppose we move to a system of Domain Name registrations in which people can be anonymous,