[messaging] Do Blockchains solve Zooko's triangle? (was: Another Take At Public Key Distribution)

[Tao Effect]

Tony,

Let’s stick to Zooko’s triangle for now, as it is not the same thing as CAP, and I disagree with your assertions regarding it. We can discuss CAP off list if you want.

Going with the Security edge of the triangle, you assert:

> So it's possible to MitM name registration

How?

> exploit the split brain/partitioned state of the network to claim a name on someone else's behalf

What?

> and trick people who are trying to look up keys by a human meaningful name into accepting an attacker's key.


How?

Please describe the attack you have in mind in detail. I believe we’ve already argued about the blockchain a bunch (on [metzdowd]), I hope this is not a rehash of those arguments.

Cheers,
Greg

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