[messaging] GNU Name System

[D. J. Bernstein]

Am I the only one who's bothered by all the effort to build naming/PKI
systems that put, e.g., VeriSign and Google and anyone who compromises
them in control of all communications between Alice and Bob?

What I'd like from a naming system is something better, namely maximum
security. This concept is explained in, e.g.,

   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/talk.politics.crypto/bC-4Kt3nUVM/AIOgqVlWoCoJ

but I think that most people here already know what it means.

The traditional view is that maximum-security decentralized systems
can't be usable, so we have to compromise on security, typically by
trusting centralized third parties. The reason I'm writing now is that I
think most people here haven't yet heard of the GNU Name System, a
_usable_ maximum-security decentralized naming system:

   https://gnunet.org/sites/default/files/paper_cans2014_camera_ready.pdf

I don't see any obstacle to taking this approach to naming inside new
messaging systems.

---Dan