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

Richard Outerbridge outer at interlog.com
Thu Sep 24 18:51:02 EDT 2020


Maybe only if some chain also followed the number around through number reassignments,
iotw if each number had its own chain of number reassignments?
__outer

> On 2020-09-24 (268), at 10:51:24, Francis Pouatcha via cryptography <cryptography at metzdowd.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:25 PM Patrick Chkoreff <pc at fexl.com <mailto:pc at fexl.com>> wrote:
> 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.
> Even better with the country code. I would like to be addressed with my phone number @+1-678-432-3321 .
> 
> Transparency can be achieved by documenting reassignment of phone numbers in the merkle tree.
> 
> /Francis
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