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This looks like a really cool premise. Decentralized signatures for certs seems like a no-brainer solution to cert/DNS hijacking (maybe I'm missing something?).
This definitely looks interesting! (I hope a project contributor is reading/commenting) Q: Let's say I'm a representative of a company that wants to buy their name "example.com" to be resolved via Handshake. Assuming things are live and running well, what's the process by which we'd get www.example.com resolving to 123.123.123.123? (keeping it simple, not worrying about mx and srv records yet) How stable and safe is…
With your private key you can also do interesting things like verify your subdomains with signatures ala DNSSEC or verify your own SSL certs without CAs.
The paper also mentions future improvements that could see each TLD using a side-chain (like plasma) to manage and possibly sell their own subdomains. This could also give each TLD owner more control over their own "consensus rules" for their particular TLD.
There are a lot more possibilities here, some are covered in the paper, many more are still to be explored.
Super excited for this project!
Sounds interesting - how can I actually use it?
Main-net launch only 1 month away.
Other crypto projects should take note. This is how to prove you're serious.
How do you get coins if you're not an open source project? Is the idea that, when the mainnet launches, private individuals and the for-profit sector will buy coins from open source projects?
This definitely looks interesting! (I hope a project contributor is reading/commenting) Q: Let's say I'm a representative of a company that wants to buy their name "example.com" to be resolved via Handshake. Assuming things are live and running well, what's the process by which we'd get www.example.com resolving to 123.123.123.123? (keeping it simple, not worrying about mx and srv records yet) How stable and safe is…
This provides a replacement for the root zone and not does not directly include subdomains. In DNS terms this is like registering a TLD. So if you own "companyx.com" domain, you could register "companyx" on handshake. Once you own this domain you can use your private key associated to set your name servers / other DNS settings, so subdomains could fallback to using existing DNS resolution, or this could resolve direc…
So of looks like this could also mean some changes in how we actually use the web, not just how DNS is managed.
Why is money (coins) necessary for this?
This definitely looks interesting! (I hope a project contributor is reading/commenting) Q: Let's say I'm a representative of a company that wants to buy their name "example.com" to be resolved via Handshake. Assuming things are live and running well, what's the process by which we'd get www.example.com resolving to 123.123.123.123? (keeping it simple, not worrying about mx and srv records yet) How stable and safe is…