GNUnet 0.10.0 released

Re:GNUnet 0.10.0 released by pseudonymous123 on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @03:49AM (#6962621)

I think that's unfeasible. Namecoin requires everyone to have a copy of all domain names AFAIK. It will just grow to the point of being useless if it becomes popular. If it becomes too big, you have to trust a small number of nodes to run a full instance and give you correct results. That's about as good as the current PKI/DNS system anyway.

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Re:GNUnet 0.10.0 released by comex on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @12:03PM (#6963402)

Even if you do have to use a server, it's a lot better to be able to choose to trust anyone with a terabyte hard disk (with about 150 million current domains according to whois.sc, that sounds like enough even if it gets very popular) to not return incorrect data for a fundamentally decentralized store than to trust each of a large group of entities (CAs) to uphold a system whose canonical source (DNS) is subject to censorship anyway.

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Re:GNUnet 0.10.0 released by kordless on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @10:44AM (#6963193)

There are Bitcoin wallet implementations that don't require the full block chain. I suspect a lightweight version of Namecoin is also possible.

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