"Private" can have several meanings and shades thereof. One emphasis here might be that the key mapping is not run by a globalist corporation.
A key (in at least two senses) database must be resistant to forgery (TLS cabal forges site cert), censorship (ICANN cancels domain), disaster (replicated across multiple geographic areas).
Another solution would be for everyone to run their own DNS server with DNSSEC and ignore ICANN. But that is a big stretch (normies don't know what DNS is).
There is an existing block chain - namecoin (info page at namecoin.org). That is already used for secure, distributed, censorship resistant key value mappings, including domain names and pgp keys. That is where I put my keys.
I wonder why Proton did not use that? It does cost namecoins to create a domain, but updates/renewals require only a transaction fee. Maybe there were scaling concerns. Jeremy (namecoin founder) himself may have requested a separate chain.
Custom Designed /
npub1th…pjfj3
2024-05-13 17:24:31
in reply to nevent1q…exyc
Author Public Key
npub1thxca0y6klep9jg8k5gqw6dndwdw4l0caz0j88vhetwhnadp00wqtpjfj3Published at
2024-05-13 17:24:31Event JSON
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