Giving Upspin a spin

Posted Mar 12, 2017 11:03 UTC (Sun) by HIGHGuY (subscriber, #62277)
In reply to: Giving Upspin a spin by xav
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That keyserver should be replaced by a blockchain.
All transactions can surely be mapped to an equivalent operation, giving more control, privacy and security.

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Giving Upspin a spin

Posted Mar 12, 2017 16:41 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Also *far* higher resource consumption (CPU due to proof-of-work, disk space and network bandwidth due to storing the thing) and probably a very low system-wide maximum transaction rate, at least if blockchains are implemented anything like the Bitcoin one.

Blockchains are not a good fit for this problem. (They look like a terrible fit, actually. Why do you need nonrepudiability of fs operations? Why do you need it so much that you're willing to pay blockchain's enormous costs?)

Giving Upspin a spin

Posted Mar 12, 2017 18:58 UTC (Sun) by HIGHGuY (subscriber, #62277) [Link]

I'm only talking about the key servers, everything else is fine as is. It also doesn't exclude central servers doing some form of caching.