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Re:Handshake: Decentralizing DNS to Improve the Security of ... by troquerre on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:20AM (#21006332)
A miner wouldn’t be able to do that. Only the private key owner of Google could do that. At most a miner could do a double spend attack (would cost a lot more than $2000), but that wouldn’t change the DNS record for Google.
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Re:Handshake: Decentralizing DNS to Improve the Security of ... by EGreg on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:47AM (#21006580)
The question is how do you know that the owner of the private key is the “owner of GOOGLE”. That’s what CA’s solve. Blockchain doesn’t solve this problem.
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