George Kadianakis: > Lunar <lunar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> [ text/plain ] >> George Kadianakis: >>> this is an experimental mail meant to address legitimate usability concerns >>> with the size of onion addresses after proposal 224 gets implemented. It's >>> meant for discussion and it's far from a full blown proposal. >> >> Taking a step back here, I believe the size of the address to be a >> really minor usability problem. IPv6 adressses are 128 bits long, and >> plenty of people in this world now access content via IPv6. It's not a >> usability problem because they use a naming—as opposed to >> addressing—scheme to learn about the appropriate IPv6 address. >> > > That's true. Naming systems are indeed the way to go wrt UX. The future sucks > if our users are supposed to use 24 (or 56) random characters as addresses. > > That said, the current IPv6 naming scheme (DNS) is far from perfect as > well. Tor would never use it (or any other system with similar threat model). > > Furthermore, all the _secure naming systems_ that have been suggested have > their own tradeoffs. They are either centralized, or they use blockchains, or > they require money, or they require a whole network/community to exist, or they > have annoying name-squatting issues, or they require a non-anonymous > registration, or they save HS history on disk, or their protocol is three times > more complicated than Tor itself, or ... > > So it's not like we have the perfect solution on the naming scheme right now. > We likely need plenty of trial experimentation before we decide on one (or > multiple) naming cheme becoming the official. > > We really need to start serious work in this area ASAP! Maybe let's start by > making a wiki page that lists the various potential solutions (GNS, Namecoin, > Blockstack, OnioNS, etc.)? I'd be happy to provide feedback on the Namecoin section of such a wiki page. Cheers, -Jeremy Rand
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