Title: DNSChain - Okturtles Post by: HostFat on March 01, 2015, 02:55:58 PM DNSChain
Sito: https://okturtles.com/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLaKW8ABy4 Quote We'll briefly describe some of the shortcomings of today's Internet security https://okturtles.com/other/dnschain_okturtles_overview.pdf(SSL/TLS, HTTPS, and Certificate Authorities), and why these systems do not provide the security that they claim to provide. We'll focus on the importance that authentication plays in securing communication systems, why a system that fails to provide strong authentication does not provide meaningful security, and how these problems can be addressed. We then introduce two projects that address these issues. The first project, DNSChain, deprecates today's insecure and fraudulent public key 1 infrastructure (PKI) by gracefully transitioning DNS from its hierarchical design, to one that is based on a globally distributed, peer-to-peer network that successfully "squares Zooko's triangle".[1] We then use the strong authentication provided by DNSChain to introduce okTurtles: a protocol and browser extension that protects the content of almost all online text-based communication from a variety of threats (such as MITM). |