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Onion names are a very good global crypto-secure naming scheme, but they don't solve the human-meaningful part of Zooko's triangle. GNS has some similar design
by southerntofu 6y ago
Onion names are a very good global crypto-secure naming scheme, but they don't solve the human-meaningful part of Zooko's triangle. GNS has some similar design properties, but "solves" the triangle by tying two different naming systems: petnames for locally-meaningful/secure names, root names for global/meaningful names.
Also as good as tor's design is, it requires some level of centralization with hidden service directories, which GNS doesn't. Disclaimer: i'm a happy tor user for many years, criticism here is in good faith (posting this from the tor network).