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by dangerface
2844 days ago
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Its not a higher level of http, its more like lets use torrents instead of http because they are distributed and scale better. But the web is more than http, its dns and email and logins and all of that stuff, it all scales poorly, it can all be improved with distribution, lets not replace http with torrents lets replace it all with distributed stuff. As an example you talk about needing a special device to manage keys which presents problems. It centralises your identity to your yubi key (instead of email), lose your yubi key and you lose your identity, what if it gets wet, crushed, corrupted, your fucked. Instead we encrypt the key and distribute it across the net, if a copy is deleted or corrupted there are other copies and its available to you anywhere anytime. Currently your identity is centralised to your email, if your email goes down you lose your identity, if its distributed and a copy goes down you just use it like normal. Distribution solves pretty much all the problems centralisation creates, its just really complicated so we generally don't bother. |
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Of course it's not higher level of HTTP, I never said that. I said higher level than HTTP. HTTP is just a stateless transport protocol, of course dat is higher level, and as I said much of the benefits described can be built on top of HTTP (and have been, just not standardized or not widespread).
> it all scales poorly, it can all be improved with distribution
Pretty sure it all does NOT scale poorly, as has been proven over the past thirty years. What's being solved here is not a problem of scale. "It can all be improved with distribution" is very hand wavy and doesn't really say anything. DNS and many other protocols are already distributed, btw.
> Instead we encrypt the key and distribute it across the net, ..., if its distributed and a copy goes down you just use it like normal.
There are two kinds of crypto, symmetric key and public key. Symmetric key is easily out of the window. For public key crypto, you always need a secret key and that has to be prior knowledge, not something negotiated on the fly, and of course prior knowledge has to be kept somewhere and presumably synced if you need it elsewhere, and it definitely can be lost. "Distributed secret keys solving everything" sounds like nonsense to me; there's always a secret key that is the starting point (call it the master key, if that makes more sense) and can't be distributed.