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I've tried reading the site and even the blockchain article but I can't put the two together. How is blockchains being used to secure communications?
by hangonhn 13y ago
I've tried reading the site and even the blockchain article but I can't put the two together. How is blockchains being used to secure communications?
- itistoday2 13y agoThey allow secure, distributed and decentralized public key distribution.
- hangonhn 13y agoHow? I understand how blockchains can be used to trace the history of transactions back to the root but I don't see how that can be used to do secure key distribution. Assuming everyone trusts the root block, how does that trust get transmitted down to subsequent blocks?
- itistoday2 13y agoRead the links in the post and the website. Here's one of them that directly answers your question: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko
- hangonhn 13y agoEvery time I read an article by Swartz I feel our community' lost all over again. :-(
- al2o3cr 13y agoAssuming there aren't any more "any user can steal from any other user" bugs in Namecoin, here's some info on how it's intended to work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
- indolering 13y agoIt isn't. He is stuffing information in the blockchain into a standard public-key crypto scheme. DNSChain is more secure in that you run your own certificate authority that happens to have it's trust root in Namecoin.