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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: BitDNS and Generalizing Bitcoin
by
appamatto
on 16/12/2010, 19:43:18 UTC

1.  The owner of Site A, create a private/public key pair, this par contains a Public Key.  The owner then Hashes the public key and creates Hash(KeyA).
2.  The owner of Site A then creates a new BitDNS transaction that contains "SiteA" and Hash(KeyA).
3.  A user looks up Site A in the BitDNS record and gains it's IP address AND Hash(KeyA)
4.  Then this user, navigates to Site A's IP address, and is sent Key A, and a signed welcome message.
5.  The user checks if Hash(BitDNS KeyA) == Hash of (IP KeyA).  If this is true, then a man-in-the-middle attack is impossible.


I don't know about step 3.  That is, I wonder if it's sufficient to simply have A's public key and then get the IP address through other means, making sure it's signed by A's key.