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

Patrick Chkoreff pc at fexl.com
Wed Sep 23 21:49:50 EDT 2020


Bill Frantz wrote on 9/23/20 4:50 PM:

> 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.

Yes, as I was driving around thinking about Phillip's post, I thought
that I'd want my name to be 10 random digits, like a phone number, e.g.
@071-449-6372.  Then my friends would just map "Patrick" to that in
their contact lists.


-- Patrick


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