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

Cryptography and Security 2014-07-25 v1 Networking and Internet Architecture

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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@article{arxiv.1407.6453,
  title  = {Providing better confidentiality and authentication on the Internet using Namecoin and MinimaLT},
  author = {Frederic Jacobs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.6453},
  year   = {2014}
}

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