<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Tao Effect <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contact@taoeffect.com" target="_blank">contact@taoeffect.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div>It does not assume a global MITM, but a global MITM is possible. [...] This question was brought up by Tony over on [metzdowd] and thoroughly dissected.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Greg,</div><div><br></div><div>The difference between Namecoin/etc and CT is that CT is sort of almost becoming ready to solve meaningful problems today, namely allowing sites to discover anomalous keys for their domains under the dirty old X.509 PKI. That said, I wonder if DNSSEC, gross as it is, might be the lesser of all evils (although I still think it needs a CT-alike too)</div><div><br></div><div>You have linked an awful lot of proposals for how to move the entire naming and authentication system of the Internet over to a "blockchain", but that sounds really hard.</div><div><br></div><div>Are there any MitM attacks in the transition process for moving all of the names to a blockchain-based system? Will it melt the Internet?</div><div><br></div><div>Making substantial changes to Internet infrastructure is easier said than done.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>Tony Arcieri<br>
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