George Kadianakis:
I made a wiki page for Naming Systems here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/OnionServiceNamingSystems
Feel free to start adding information and links and make it look nicer.
Let's try to build a good knowledge base that will help us take informed decisions. Please try to maintain some sort of consistent structure through the document.
(In the unlikely case where the doc gets out of hand, I will try to find some time to curate it.)
Thanks! :)
Hello! I just had a chance to look through the latest state of the wiki page (thanks to everyone who's been expanding it). I've added several items to the security properties and drawbacks sections of Namecoin, and made a few trivial corrections; hopefully none of them are controversial. (If anyone thinks I made a mistake, please let me know.)
I notice that kernelcorn added an item to the "drawbacks" section of Namecoin, which says "Hard to authenticate names." It's not entirely clear to me what is meant by this item, so it's hard for me to evaluate its accuracy.
Any chance Jesse could elaborate on this?
Cheers, -Jeremy
PS: Happy to see that OnioNS is still being worked on -- I think it's great to have more of the solution space explored and more options available, regardless of the fact that OnioNS and Namecoin could be considered competitors. We're all in this together, and I'd love to see both OnioNS and Namecoin succeed. :)