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I am actually curious because I don't fully understand how Handshake works... I believe it allows you to setup a K of N threshold signature scheme for changing
by josh2600 7y ago
I am actually curious because I don't fully understand how Handshake works... I believe it allows you to setup a K of N threshold signature scheme for changing DNS, which, is kinda cool, but I don't understand if this would help BGP route hijacking.
Edit: I guess this is a replacement for ICANN not the inter-carrier routing protocols, which is, interesting. Is the point here that if DNS authorities switch to Handshake for authoritative DNS it will be harder to hijack routes? I would love an explanation, sorry it I'm being dense!!
- pinhead26 7y agoIt doesn't address BGP, just DNS. You are correct about the signature scheme though. In fact, names are owned by unspent transaction outputs, exactly like Bitcoin. Meaning you can own a name with whatever weird script you want (2 of 3 before a certain date, 4 of 5 after...) you can even add scripts that allow certain keys to update a DNS resource, but a different key to transfer the name.