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Agree DNS has won today but I don’t think the current infrastructure will be what the world is using 10 years from now. ie We're trying to improve the security
by troquerre 7y ago
Agree DNS has won today but I don’t think the current infrastructure will be what the world is using 10 years from now. ie We're trying to improve the security of the Internet by replacing Certificate Authorities with a distributed root of trust. DNS is currently centralized and controlled by a few organizations at the top of the hierarchy (namely ICANN) and easily censored by governments. Trust in HTTPS is delegated by CAs, but security follows a one of many model, where only one CA out of thousands needs to be compromised in order for your traffic to be compromised.
We're building on top of a new protocol (https://handshake.org https://handshake.org, just launched 4 days ago!!) to create an alternate root zone that's distributed. Developers can register their own TLDs and truly own them by controlling their private keys. In addition, they can pin TLSA certs to their TLD so that CAs aren't needed anymore.
I wrote a more in-depth blog post here: https://www.namebase.io/blog/meet-handshake-decentralizing-dns-to-improve-the-security-of-the-internet https://www.namebase.io/blog/meet-handshake-decentralizing-d...