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I also like the idea of Keybase.io, though I wish it was based on something a little more decentralized. The unfortunately-named WebFist looks cool: http://www

I also like the idea of Keybase.io, though I wish it was based on something a little more decentralized. The unfortunately-named WebFist looks cool: http://www.onebigfluke.com/2013/06/bootstrapping-webfinger-with-webfist.html http://www.onebigfluke.com/2013/06/bootstrapping-webfinger-w...

jnbiche 13y ago
Have you checked out OneName? It runs on the Namecoin blockchain, so it's quite decentralized. I've not actually tried it yet, but it looks pretty damn cool. https://onename.io/ https://onename.io/
- riffraff 13y ago
  please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is not really decentralized. It's a single authority that owns a namespace in namecoin and is giving out sub-names. It's decentralized in the same way a twitter account is.
  - jnbiche 13y ago
    No, you're wrong. It's entirely decentralized. Have a look at the spec: https://github.com/onenameio/onename https://github.com/onenameio/onename Anyone running a full Namecoin node (ie, anyone running Namecoin client) can register an identification. OneName is providing a convenient web portal to this key-value store on Namecoin, so their business model is somewhat analogous to Blockchain.info's (or perhaps they have another business model in mind, who knows?).
  - vertex-four 13y ago
    Nobody can own namespaces. They're "just" acting as a middleman for buying names in Namecoin in a namespace they've defined themselves, but anyone could bypass them and buy their own names in that namespace. The annoying thing is, we already have a namespace for identities, it's standardised and documented on the wiki. They came in and defined their own namespace for no good reason.
- rakoo 13y ago
  Then again, why not use namecoin ? They (we ?) have a spec with what format your records should look like: https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?title=Identity https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?title=Identity Basically, there's a whole id/ namespace where you register your personal information, and there's a d/ namespace where you register domain names (akin to DNS). Onename is the same except they use i/ (they haven't even tried to discuss it and basically did it all from scratch to start clean) The major problem is that you basically need a namecoin client to interact with the data... unless you use dnschain [0], which act as a HTTP-to-Namecoin and DNS-to-Namecoin bridge. Try this: $ dig @dns.dnschain.net otokar.bit $ curl http://dns.dnschain.net/d/otokar http://dns.dnschain.net/d/otokar both are my personal domain, delivered to you through plain old protocols. The last one even works in your browser ! Come and join us, this is actually the future. Oh and by the way I'm id/rakoo. [0] https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
  - voltagex_ 13y ago
    >You have asked Firefox to connect securely to wiki.namecoin.info, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
    - itistoday2 13y ago
      Looks like they didn't pay protection money to a CA. Huh.
  - SideshowBobb 13y ago
    Doesn't putting the namecoin blockchain on a remote server and then using the traditional DNS system to interact with the remote Namecoin DNS system completely defeat the purpose of Namecoin DNS?
- larrysalibra 13y ago
  And unlike keybase's "it's complicated so it must be good" proofs, onename's proofs are easy -> add a pointer from your onename namespace to your social media property and a pointer back to onename to prove you own it. No need to generate signatures that break when anything changes. https://onename.io/larry https://onename.io/larry https://keybase.io/larry https://keybase.io/larry

jnbiche 13y ago

Have you checked out OneName? It runs on the Namecoin blockchain, so it's quite decentralized. I've not actually tried it yet, but it looks pretty damn cool. https://onename.io/ https://onename.io/

riffraff 13y ago
please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is not really decentralized. It's a single authority that owns a namespace in namecoin and is giving out sub-names. It's decentralized in the same way a twitter account is.
- jnbiche 13y ago
  No, you're wrong. It's entirely decentralized. Have a look at the spec: https://github.com/onenameio/onename https://github.com/onenameio/onename Anyone running a full Namecoin node (ie, anyone running Namecoin client) can register an identification. OneName is providing a convenient web portal to this key-value store on Namecoin, so their business model is somewhat analogous to Blockchain.info's (or perhaps they have another business model in mind, who knows?).
- vertex-four 13y ago
  Nobody can own namespaces. They're "just" acting as a middleman for buying names in Namecoin in a namespace they've defined themselves, but anyone could bypass them and buy their own names in that namespace. The annoying thing is, we already have a namespace for identities, it's standardised and documented on the wiki. They came in and defined their own namespace for no good reason.
rakoo 13y ago
Then again, why not use namecoin ? They (we ?) have a spec with what format your records should look like: https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?title=Identity https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?title=Identity Basically, there's a whole id/ namespace where you register your personal information, and there's a d/ namespace where you register domain names (akin to DNS). Onename is the same except they use i/ (they haven't even tried to discuss it and basically did it all from scratch to start clean) The major problem is that you basically need a namecoin client to interact with the data... unless you use dnschain [0], which act as a HTTP-to-Namecoin and DNS-to-Namecoin bridge. Try this: $ dig @dns.dnschain.net otokar.bit $ curl http://dns.dnschain.net/d/otokar http://dns.dnschain.net/d/otokar both are my personal domain, delivered to you through plain old protocols. The last one even works in your browser ! Come and join us, this is actually the future. Oh and by the way I'm id/rakoo. [0] https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
- voltagex_ 13y ago
  >You have asked Firefox to connect securely to wiki.namecoin.info, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
  - itistoday2 13y ago
    Looks like they didn't pay protection money to a CA. Huh.
- SideshowBobb 13y ago
  Doesn't putting the namecoin blockchain on a remote server and then using the traditional DNS system to interact with the remote Namecoin DNS system completely defeat the purpose of Namecoin DNS?
larrysalibra 13y ago
And unlike keybase's "it's complicated so it must be good" proofs, onename's proofs are easy -> add a pointer from your onename namespace to your social media property and a pointer back to onename to prove you own it. No need to generate signatures that break when anything changes. https://onename.io/larry https://onename.io/larry https://keybase.io/larry https://keybase.io/larry