From ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com Wed Apr 11 07:28:19 2018 From: ZmnSCPxj at protonmail.com (ZmnSCPxj) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 03:28:19 -0400 Subject: [Lightning-dev] Proposal for Advertising Lightning nodes via DNS records. In-Reply-To: References: <874lkl2zrq.fsf@gmail.com> Message-ID: Good morning Tyler, > I will continue to approach the problem of securely advertising human-understandable node names, and I hope someday soon I will have a solution Lightning can use that retains the open, decentralized properties of the technology and the underlying blockchains. I believe this faces the issue of Zooko's Triangle? Decentralized, Secure, Human-meaningful: pick any two. Node pubkeys are Decentralized and Secure (good luck memorizing store.blockstream.com node pubkey if you are merely human). Node aliases are Decentralized and Human-meaningful (nothing prevents me from naming my node SLEEPYARK, though). DNS is Secure and Human-meaningful (DNS registration is centralized around ICANN). Maybe a DNS la Regards, ZmnSCPxj -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: