Re:Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority
by XorNot on Monday July 25, 2022 @08:33AM
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God why is this blockchain? If I want to decentralize naming then I want to get away from IANA as the exclusive authority top down, but what it means is I want a reputation/selective trust system not some PoW trash.
i.e. "are you my bank?" It's a question I want answered specifically, in a cryptographically secure fashion by my local government well-known authority, and then my bank.
"Are you the local resistance leaders?" is a question I want answered by a chain of signed pseudonyms with set of revocations being published frequently through anonymous channels.
In both cases, details like "how are TLDs assigned?" should ultimately be in my control, with a convention to establish "normal" practice.
One of those use cases shouldn't be wasting my money running GPU miners, and one of them can't.
i.e. "are you my bank?" It's a question I want answered specifically, in a cryptographically secure fashion by my local government well-known authority, and then my bank.
"Are you the local resistance leaders?" is a question I want answered by a chain of signed pseudonyms with set of revocations being published frequently through anonymous channels.
In both cases, details like "how are TLDs assigned?" should ultimately be in my control, with a convention to establish "normal" practice.
One of those use cases shouldn't be wasting my money running GPU miners, and one of them can't.