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At this point you're talking about checking a signature. Naively, it seems to me like you could skip the NFT entirely and embed a verifiable sig in a securely d
by Kalium 5y ago
At this point you're talking about checking a signature. Naively, it seems to me like you could skip the NFT entirely and embed a verifiable sig in a securely delivered DNS record. Then it's linked to the domain. You can do this now, with tooling that already exists and is deployable today. You'd need to deliver the record securely to avoid attacks on the glue anyway.
Of course, neither the NFT nor the sig-in-DNS approach actually solves the problem of a visually identical but technically different image (use a slightly different color in a few places, etc.) being used to trick people. I'm not sure what we've gained. The malicious use case would seem like it's not effectively prevented.
- cobbzilla 5y agoYou’re right. Both about the problem still being present and NFT being not strictly necessary anyway. I can’t help but think there must be a way to make it work.
- Kalium 5y agoThere probably is, provided you can get a perceptual model that correctly models all human visual perception and reduce it to a hash. I am not sure one exists currently. Until then, it really does seem like we're trying to find a way to re-implement trademarks in a way that doesn't require the interpretive work that trademarks rely on. I suspect there's a lot of complexity hidden in the perceptual model requirement, though.