[tor-talk] A Tor-based Public-Key Infrastructure

2016-01-11 Thread Ethan White
First off, this is my first post to tor-talk, so I'm not even really sure this is the right place, but... Recently, I've been toying with an idea inspired by a posting on tor-talk by Mike Perry from September 2013 [1], in which alternatives were discussed to Web of Trust (WoT); specifically, t

Re: [tor-talk] A Tor-based Public-Key Infrastructure

2016-01-12 Thread Rene Bartsch
Great idea! To avoid the dependency on servers/providers I suggest to take a Bitcoin-like blockchain with an extension to assign self-registered, globally unique pseudonyms to blockchain wallets and use the private ECDSA-key of the blockchain wallet corresponding to the pseudonym to sign X.50