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You can place your own self-signed public key in your namecoin record. There is no longer any need for certificate authorities which can be coerced into forging
by aianus 12y ago
You can place your own self-signed public key in your namecoin record. There is no longer any need for certificate authorities which can be coerced into forging certificates.
- beagle3 12y agoWell, if this is properly supported by software using namecoin for DNS resolution, then - yes, this may work. The proof of the pudding, however, will arrive once it's eaten. I am not familiar with namecoin to point where the potential problems are, but do note that the failure of CAs is not in the cryptography but rather in the trust model. In modern cryptography, the problems are almost always with the practice, not with the theory.
- rakoo 12y ago> software using namecoin for DNS resolution Actually, it should be the other way around: dnschain [0] bridges DNS resolution and namecoin, so there's no need to modify existing software. [0] https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
- beagle3 12y agoCool! wasn't aware of it.