[liberationtech] Announcing Scramble.io

[Nicolai]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 06:22:02PM -0400, Tom Ritter wrote:

> SSL is Secure and Memorable, but highly centralized.  (It is secure
> because you have to prove ownership of a name to get a certificate for
> it.)
> This technique is Secure and Decentralized - but not memorable.

Agreed regarding scramble.io.  I think DNSCurve and CurveCP would be
more likely to fit under Secure and Memorable, with questions about
Decentralization, since DNS itself is highly centralized.  And when I
say memorable, I mean that the public keys are not exposed to the user,
so it's actually not applicable.  You use CNAMEs for CurveCP keys [0],
and end users don't need to know NS records to look up example.com.

So I suppose from a Zooko's Triangle perspective, CurveCP & DNSCurve
would be in a different category than scramble.io.

Nicolai
0. dig curvecp.chocolatine.org