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The thing with central registries is that they're central points of failure / censorship targets. The main driving thought about this is making sure that outla
by SchizoDuckie 12y ago
The thing with central registries is that they're central points of failure / censorship targets.
The main driving thought about this is making sure that outlawed/censored software can be accessed via an unblockable channel wether it's been banned or not.
Integrity verification is a good point, the shell application could do something with that possibily (verifying crc / a pgp hash somehow perhaps)
- rakoo 12y agoSure, having no central point sounds like the better think to have, but then how do you provide authenticity ? That's the main problem you're going to face if it starts being popular. You need either trusted sources that can provide you with the correct infohash/pgp signature/whatever, which are the easiest thing to do, or you need some kind of p2p consensus system in which peers "vote" in some way so you can be fairly certain of authenticity. Tribler has made a lot things in this domain, maybe you should check it out.