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Strictly speaking there's no need for a DNS-like system to use domain _names_ - you could use domain keys instead (locating the authoritative servers could then
by bdonlan 16y ago
Strictly speaking there's no need for a DNS-like system to use domain _names_ - you could use domain keys instead (locating the authoritative servers could then be done with a DHT of some sort). The problem then is that it becomes hard to type them in manually, but people could exchange such things with QR codes, or abbreviated hashes of the keys. You do lose usability, but it's a compromise that wouldn't be entirely unusable.
- jerf 16y agoAnd you'd have to solve the issues of deliberately corrupting DHT nodes, deliberately constructed collisions, and forged copies of the whatever-human-key ends up being used, since it is pretty much out of the question that we will all type in 128-bit numbers for website access. Note I do not mean this as criticism of your comment, because you can't possibly solve these issues in an HN comment. Just pointing it out. Designing a decentralized network that works at all is a big enough challenge, designing a fully decentralized network that stands up to hostile attacks by intelligent adversaries is even harder.