From tyzbit at gmail.com Wed Apr 11 15:28:28 2018 From: tyzbit at gmail.com (Tyler H) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:28:28 +0000 Subject: [Lightning-dev] Proposal for Advertising Lightning nodes via DNS records. In-Reply-To: References: <874lkl2zrq.fsf@gmail.com> Message-ID: ZmnSCPxj, Yes, I understand I essentially I'd have to solve that trilemma in order to implement something suitable for Lightning. That is why I have pulled my support for my proposal, and I do insist that the proposal AT MOST be a convention, but not a standard, and nodes SHOULD NOT trust DNS. Thanks, Tyler On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 3:28 AM ZmnSCPxj wrote: > 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: