[Cryptography] DNSNMC deprecates Certificate Authorities and fixes HTTPS security

[Ben Laurie]

On 14 December 2013 00:10, Greg <greg at kinostudios.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Moving this into its own thread:
>
> 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.5
>
> “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:
>
> Authenticated: users can be certain that they are not speaking to an
> impostor
>
> Decentralized: there is no central authority controlling all the names

As I pointed out elsewhere, Bitcoin (and hence Namecoin) is not
decentralised: http://www.links.org/files/decentralised-currencies.pdf.

> Human-readable: names look just like today’s domain names