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Re: [Cryptography] Implementations, attacks on DHTs, Mix Nets?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Thornburg)
Tue Aug 27 21:55:57 2013
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:47:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@astro.indiana.edu>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130827214159.725bd9d9@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>
Cc: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Say that you want to distribute a database table consisting of human
> readable IDs, cryptographic keys and network endpoints for some
> reason. Say you want it to scale to hundreds of millions of users.
This sounds remarkably like a description of DNSSEC.
Assuming it were widely deployed, would DNSSEC-for-key-distribution
be a reasonable way to store
email_address --> public_key
mappings?
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-- "Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@astro.indiana.edu>
Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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that they watched everybody all the time." -- George Orwell, "1984"
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