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What are the differences between this and namecoin?
by evv 12y ago
What are the differences between this and namecoin?
- ryan-c 12y agoIt's middleware running on top of Namecoin's RPC interface. It does not have it's own blockchain.
- rakoo 12y agoMore specifically, it uses namecoin and the information you store in there [0] [1] and makes it accessible to non-namecoin software through DNS and HTTP. Best use-case, to me: put your TLS certificates with DANE structures, and you can be sure they aren't spoofed by anyone when someone gets your records. No need for the heavy and centralized DNSSEC. [0] https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?title=Identity https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?title=Identity [1] https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?title=Domain_Name_Specification https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?title=Domain_Name_Speci...