<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Thanks for posting this Andres!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will need to read this closely.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I only skimmed it for now… but the use of quorums suggests to me that this is a sort of Convergence style approach to keyservers, is that about right?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One note, as this part jumped out at me:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The security requirements for end-to-end encryption leave us with an<br class="">unfortunate tradeoff known as Zooko's triangle[1] (the CAP theorem[2] of<br class="">security?): we do not know how to build a global secure directory of<br class="">human-chosen usernames.</blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>I think we’ve known how to build such a directory since 2011 at least, see Aaron Swartz’ post:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko" class="">http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Which led to Namecoin, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Greg Slepak</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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