Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

#1

Post by Bender » Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 5:15 PM UTC

Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority
handshake.org

Re: Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

#2

Post by ruyden1000 » Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 5:33 PM UTC

This is golden, it reminds the time when Let's encrypt started. Something that is challenging and can change a lot the direction of the internet.

Re: Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

#3

Post by djsumdog » Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

I don't see information on how names are handled. I know Zeronet started the entire .bit (which can be purchased with NameCoin). Are there reserved TLDs for handshake?

Has ICANN said anything about .bit or .onion TLDs? I suspect TOR is big enough they won't touch .onion, but if they sell .bit, you'll then have some name overlap/conflicts.

Re: Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

#4

Post by RL_Quine » Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC

ruyden1000 wrote: post #2

This is golden, it reminds the time when Let's encrypt started. Something that is challenging and can change a lot the direction of the internet.

Nice astroturfing.

Re: Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

#5

Post by layoutIfNeeded » Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

ruyden1000 wrote: post #2

This is golden, it reminds the time when Let's encrypt started. Something that is challenging and can change a lot the direction of the internet.

>Created: 40 min ago

Re: Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

#6

Post by jspaetzel » Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

First impression: Great another ICO.

Second impression: Not a wildly outlandish idea but im not sure if it's a good idea either. Decentralized and automated registrar with a concept of renewals. Nifty.

I'm not really sure how the economics here work out.. Could I scoop up a few million names early on and then hold them forever? Has that already happened? Could this enable anonymous registration? Would these things make users trust these names more or less?

Re: Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

#7

Post by RL_Quine » Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

They've somehow managed to make the two least optimal choices of language possible.

    The full node daemon, hsd, is written in Javascript.

A non type safe language with poor package management for consensus critical code.

    We also have a light client, hnsd, which is written in C

A non memory safe and error prone language for client code people would run on their systems as root.

Re: Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

#8

Post by omani » Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 5:53 PM UTC

ruyden1000 wrote: post #2

This is golden, it reminds the time when Let's encrypt started. Something that is challenging and can change a lot the direction of the internet.

lol you really think we fall for your comment?

Re: Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

#9

Post by lifty » Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 5:53 PM UTC

djsumdog wrote: post #3

I don't see information on how names are handled. I know Zeronet started the entire .bit (which can be purchased with NameCoin). Are there reserved TLDs for handshake? Has ICANN said anything about .bit or .onion TLDs? I suspect TOR is big enough they won't touch .onion, but if they sell .bit, you'll then have some name overlap/conflicts.

The handshake namespace overlaps with the normal domain name system, but they reserve the top 100k domains for the current owners. My only concern is the long term sync between DNS and the old system. But I like the project and I think it’s a good way forward for replacing the current centralized DNS and PKI system

Re: Decentralized Naming and Certificate Authority

#10

Post by the_snooze » Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 5:54 PM UTC

Looks like this is similar to Namecoin?

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/namespace...