[Cryptography] Implementations, attacks on DHTs, Mix Nets?

Peter Saint-Andre stpeter at stpeter.im
Tue Aug 27 21:57:30 EDT 2013


On 8/27/13 7:47 PM, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> Say that you want to distribute a database table consisting of human
>> readable IDs, cryptographic keys and network endpoints for some
>> reason. Say you want it to scale to hundreds of millions of users.
> 
> This sounds remarkably like a description of DNSSEC.
> 
> Assuming it were widely deployed, would DNSSEC-for-key-distribution
> be a reasonable way to store
>   email_address --> public_key  
> mappings?

You mean something like this (email address --> OTR key)?

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wouters-dane-otrfp/

Peter

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