[Cryptography] DNSNMC deprecates Certificate Authorities and fixes HTTPS security

Ben Laurie ben at links.org
Wed Dec 18 17:50:27 EST 2013


On 18 December 2013 22:44, Greg <greg at kinostudios.com> wrote:
> 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.

Let us suppose for a moment that this is correct. What is the
well-known solution to the well-known 51% problem?


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