Providing better confidentiality and authentication on the Internet using Namecoin and MinimaLT

2014/07/24 by Frederic Jacobs, Jacobs, Frederic
Computer Science · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #cs.CR #cs.NI

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1407.6453

Paper available on GitHub: https://github.com/FredericJacobs/safeweb

arxiv created 2014/07/24 · arxiv updated 2014/07/25

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a duo of improvements for the Internet that would lead to better security. The authentication model on the Internet is broken and TLS connections have a considerable overhead. We try to address those issues with changes in both the application layer, discussing a replacement for the DNS system, and in the transport layer, a drop-in replacement for TCP built on top of UDP so that it can run on today's internet infrastructure.

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