[Cryptography] WireGuard

jamesd at echeque.com jamesd at echeque.com
Tue Sep 4 23:26:29 EDT 2018


On 04/09/2018 23:24, Paul Wouters wrote:
>  In other words, namecoin / ENS gets you nothing. You just end up in
> yet another legal system or combined legal system or worse, just have
> to provide some incentives to 4 out of 7 pseudo-random people, each
> with their own human problems opening them up to bribery, blackmail or
> coercion of some kind (threaten with jail, loss of job/health care or
> just whack their knee caps)
> 

What it gets you is that the mapping between human readable names and 
cryptographic identifiers cannot be changed secretively and unnoticeably 
for one connection, and then secretively and unnoticeably changed back 
without anyone noticing.





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