[Cryptography] DNSNMC deprecates Certificate Authorities and fixes HTTPS security

[Greg]

On Dec 17, 2013, at 8:15 PM, Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> wrote:
> ...completely missing the point of Ben's paper.  It really comes down to the following:
> 
> "So now we have either an existence proof of an efficient solution, or a proof that Bitcoin doesn’t work."
> 
> [..]
> 
> The paper is offered as a proof by contrapositive that "Bitcoin doesn't work" - though you have to read that phrase in context.  What's being denied is that "Bitcoin is a decentralized currency" in the sense described in the paper.

As far as I was able to tell, the paper was a restatement of the well-known 51% problem.

Am I wrong? If so, please explain how.

Cheers,
Greg

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