<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi list,</div><div><br></div><div>Moving this into its own thread:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="page" title="Page 8"><div class="section" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;">DNSNMC fixes the authentication problems previously described, and it addresses all of the problems that with the previously mentioned proposals. It does this first by combining DNS with Namecoin (NMC), and then by encouraging a “trust only those you know” policy.</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Palatino; vertical-align: 3pt;">5</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 8"><div class="section" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;">“Namecoin is an open source decentralized key/value registration and transfer system based on Bitcoin technology”.[16] Namecoin “squares Zooko’s Triangle”, meaning, it makes it possible to have domain names (and other types of identifiers) that are:</span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="page" title="Page 8"><div class="section" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><ul><li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Authenticated: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">users can be certain that they are not speaking to an impostor</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino; font-weight: 700;"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Decentralized: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">there is no central authority controlling all the names</span></p></li><li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Palatino;"><p style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Human-readable: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">names look just like today’s domain names</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">However, by itself, Namecoin does not provide the means by which ordinary users can take advantage of the features it provides. Using Namecoin is far too cumbersome for the vast majority of internet users, even those with years of computer expertise. For one, it cannot be used on mobile devices (like iPhones) in its current state because of its network requirements.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">DNSNMC provides the missing “glue” to the Namecoin blockchain that makes it immediately accessible to clients of all types with </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">zero configuration</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. A network administrator need only enter the IP address of a DNSNMC-compliant DNS server to instantly make the information within the blockchain accessible to all of the users that she (or he) provides internet access to.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"> </span></span></p></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div>Paper: <a href="http://okturtles.com/other/dnsnmc_okturtles_overview.pdf">http://okturtles.com/other/dnsnmc_okturtles_overview.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Greg Slepak</div></div><div apple-content-edited="true">--<br>Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA.</div><br><br><div>
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