pinhead26

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by pinhead26 6y ago
Ah hello 2015, my old friend. DNSSEC is a Government-Controlled PKI -> Not if the root of trust is secured by a proof-of-work blockchain DNSSEC is Cryptographically Weak -> Not if zone operators upgrade to ECDSA as defined for DNSSEC
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by pinhead26 7y ago
The Goosig (extra blinding crpyto) is also optional. With the --bare flag, its just a signature.
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by pinhead26 7y ago
You don't have to, it works by signing a message with your PGP or SSH key. All GitHub users' public keys are already available from their API, that's how the airdrop works.
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by pinhead26 7y ago
There is currently no such thing as a decentralized side chain. No one wants all this data on Bitcoin.
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by pinhead26 7y ago
It doesn't address BGP, just DNS. You are correct about the signature scheme though. In fact, names are owned by unspent transaction outputs, exactly like Bitcoin. Meaning you can own a name with whatever weird script you want (2 of 3
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by pinhead26 7y ago
I'd say it extends more than overlap: If a name is not found on the Handshake chain, the resolver "falls back" to legacy ICANN DNS. Since all current gTLDs are reserved as well as the top 100k, there won't be any overlap
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by pinhead26 7y ago
The project raised $10M and then gave 100% of it away to open source projects. They receive some HNS tokens in return. There is a massive airdrop of coins to hundreds of thousands of guthub users, spreading out the money supply to people wh
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by pinhead26 7y ago
Well at least you don't have to worry about package management, all the dependencies are built by the organization either from scratch or with vendored code. Re: JavaScript, you should take a look at the code in repo, it's excelle
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by pinhead26 7y ago
Not really, the DNS data is stored in a new data structure called an "Urkel Tree" that offers small proofs and fast lookup times. Full nodes (that archive and process the entire blockchain) can serve these proofs to light clients
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by pinhead26 7y ago
Well you don't need to mine the coin to use the DNS system. You can obtain tokens some other way (an exchange) and buy a name on chain.
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by pinhead26 7y ago
- Handshake TLDs need to be renewed every two years or the names go back up for auction. Renewals must include a recent block hash to prove that the name owner is still active and has _recently_ signed the renewal transaction. - Yes, names