Handshake is a brand new blockchain that replaces the ICANN DNS root zone file. It actually starts off with the current root zone, and then extends it. Users can buy TLDs from the Handshake blockchain using an auction process, and register DNS records right on the chain. Handshake ships with a light…

How is it an improvement over namecoin and the .bit domain?

I actually like more the GNU’s GNS (GNU Name System) that is libre, decentralized and free.

Namecoin doesn’t have light clients. See this section of the HNS whitepaper: https://namebase.io/handshake-whitepaper/#naming-history for more discussion on prior art. This is the Handshake light client: https://github.com/handshake-org/hnsd The new data structure called the “urkel” tree was desig…

[image] anon10067017: I actually like more the GNU’s GNS (GNU Name System) that is libre, decentralized and free. [image] Librem 5 and GNUnet Librem 5 I am a GNUnet developer. As soon as I get my Librem 5, I will try to get GNUnet running on the Librem …

[image] anon10067017: I actually like more the GNU’s GNS (GNU Name System) that is libre, decentralized and free. Although other projects can be nice experiments, GNUnet on the Librem 5 is a strategic priority for me. Cannot agree more :+1:

How do GNU Name System distributes domain names to their new owners and how GNU domain name system is censorship resistant?

As I understand these two systems solving two different problems. Handshake is solving domain names by decentralizing DNS root zone file and replacing ICANN Where GNU Network is trying to replace the current Ethernet TCP/IP system am I wrong? I do not find any info on how the GNU network would …

There is no hierarchy of authorities to governing the domain names, GNS zones are controlled by a private key. GNS is fully decentralized and stores that information in a DHT. The validity of the records is assured cryptographically, by signing them with the private key of the respective zone. So wh…

GNUnet is not trying to replace the current Ethernet TCP/IP system, because it can - but does not have to - run as an overlay network on top of the existing internet. The GNUnet transport system has several plugins for different protocols, like TCP, UDP, WLAN, Bluetooth and one could for example imp…

Yes Handshake is an alternative DNS root zone secured by proof of work, it is a new blockchain where everything is streamlined and optimized just for DNS. If I ever get my phone (Evergreen, ordered April 2018) the first thing I’m going to do is try to compile hnsd: https://github.com/handshake-org/h…

Handshake: Decentralized DNS, certificate authority and naming

Hardware Librem 5

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