RE: Decentralising the DNS

[Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at>]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Christian Huitema wrote:
>
> The only "secure" solution that we could deploy uses large numbers
> instead of names, where the number is essentially a hash of a
> self-signed certificate. That works, for some definition of working: if
> you know what number to retrieve, you will get an authoritative answer.
> But that means using large numbers instead of short friendly names, and
> thus is not very "user-friendly".

Another alternative is to use local relative names instead of global
names, as in the Unmanaged Internet Architecture.
	http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/uia/

Tony.
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