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Why the P2P DNS project will not work
- iwr 16y agoA web of trust would not need to be too deep to start working. After all, it takes just a couple of acquaintance hops to connect 90% of the people on Earth. Not sure about the 6-degrees-of-separation thing, but it's probably on the order of that. The greater problem of a distributed system would be public key revocation, because you have to go through your entire contacts list to publish a new key.
- mooism2 16y agoThe point is that you need someone to prevent name conflicts, and that person/organisation is a single point of failure who can be pressured by governments/corporations to revoke names they don't like.
- gasull 16y agoFlagged because the link leads to an error page.
- iwr 16y agoThe link is fine, just their server overloaded at the moment.
- treitnauer 16y agoYep, looks like Tumblr has some issues at the moment.