Subject: [DNSOP] .KEY - a new example of a non-DNS use

From: Dan York <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:58:18 +0000

As we've been having this thread around TLDs, I noticed this item in Hacker News this morning of a new overlay network that is designed to use hashes of public keys for addressing:

https://github.com/zrm/snow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9843373
http://trustiosity.com/snow/how-it-works.html

The developer has decided for name resolution **within the overlay network** to use "<hash-of-public-key>.key".

I see this as similar to what the Tor folks do with ".onion".

I point this out only to show another instance of a developer seeking to use DNS-like names (and even DNS tools)... only outside the scope of the regular DNS system.

Dan

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