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No, it gives you the option of a different server that the NSA has also compromised. There's is no way to square the circle here - Zooko's triangle [1] guarant
by richardwhiuk 13y ago
No, it gives you the option of a different server that the NSA has also compromised.
There's is no way to square the circle here - Zooko's triangle [1] guarantees that you can't have a decentralized system with memorable secure names. See Dan Kaminsky's analysis of Aaron's system (which was implemented by NameCoin. [2]
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
2: http://dankaminsky.com/2011/01/13/spelunk-tri/ http://dankaminsky.com/2011/01/13/spelunk-tri/
- hueving 13y agoZooko's triangle doesn't guarantee anything. It was proven to be false. Read your own link.
- kalleboo 13y agoI just read that rebuttal link, and it predates Namecoin and it looks like things have changed quite a lot since the original proposal - including a 250 day expiration date and more importantly, Bitcoin-style block mining to do tiebreaking on registration races to decide what the truth is. Have there been any successful attacks of the type outlined in the rebuttal made on Bitcoin or Namecoin?
- wyager 13y agoIf you have a full desktop PC, you can run a full namecoin client and get a DNS that it's non-trivial for the NSA to compromise.