[Cryptography] A naming and key distribution infrastructure for the Mesh

[Bill Frantz]

On 9/23/20 at 10:18 AM, paul at cypherpunks.ca (Paul Wouters) wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Sep 2020, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
>>So I don't want Alice's address to be alice at example.com. I want her to be @Alice.
>
>We have millions of alice's who want to be @Alice. It can't work like
>that. Look at a 12 year old who wants to get a gmail address. The good
>namespace is already taken and they have to come up with weird stuff
>that none of their friends can remember anyway.

It sounds like we're getting into Zooko's triangle territory. 
The general solution to this dillema is Pet Names. A pet name 
only has local significance. My address book is full of pet 
names, which resolve to real email addresses, postal addresses, 
and telephone numbers.

Cheers - Bill

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