Decentralized DNS Project Handshake Patches Inflation Bug - CoinDesk:
The team behind the decentralized Domain Name Server (DNS) project, Handshake, recently patched a bug which could have inflated the supply of HNS coins.
When it existed in Handshake's code, the bug was never exploited and no user funds or domain data were compromised, Handshake's developers write in a post.
"A flaw was discovered in the Handshake protocol that could unintentionally increase the total HNS coin supply beyond its designed limits," the post reads. "A user with a reserved name claim could have accidentally generated small amounts of extra HNS by modifying their wallet. In the worst-case scenario, a malicious miner could generate nearly unlimited extra HNS in every block. The bug was never exploited and is now fixed."
The team advises miners and node operators to update to the newest version asap.
Handshake is "An experimental peer-to-peer root naming system." The "About Handshake" section of their web page says that "Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root DNS naming zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities and naming systems. "
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @03:30PM (1 child)
How about we ignore these idiotic blockchain scams until the bubble bursts and they die a horrible death?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 09 2021, @09:25PM
oh yeah, because some parasite being able to seize your domain at will is so legit.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday April 09 2021, @06:13PM (1 child)
Client/server is for the LAN only. The WAN a public network and has to be ad hoc
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 10 2021, @06:28PM
elaborate. i don't understand. i don't see a difference between WAN and LAN. maybe this distinction is "brainwashing"?
on topic, it is nice there's a attempt to decentralize DomainNameSystem. just a quiiiick reminder, that de-centralizing something, be it "identity" (DNS) or energy (home solar) someone ALWAYS loses money or rather loses their private money-faucet, so resistance
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 09 2021, @07:06PM (1 child)
Installation attempt led to dependency hell. I wasted about 20 minutes on it, before quitting.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 14 2021, @01:56AM
OK - I diddled with this thing, and gave up on it. Came back to it, and got the docker machine working. Came back again, and got HandyBrowser installed. After getting the docker machine working, and the browser installed, it took HOURS for the DNS thing to synchronize. I can't say how many hours, I gave up, and left it to do it's thing.
Once synchronized, HandyBrowser works, after a fashion. It loads and allows me to log into SoylentNews. It loads Google search. It won't load DuckDuckgo, it won't load Yandex. It loads some of the bookmarks preset in the bookmarks menu, and it won't load other bookmarks. Here it is, four days after I first started diddling with it - and I've shut down both the browser and the docker machine. I just can't see much use to it at this point in time.
Aside from simply not loading a lot of pages, the browser seems borked. It's a bastard offshoot of Chrome, with almost none of the functionality of other Chrome forked browsers. Right clicking won't give you the expected menus, such as copy or paste, or "open in new tab". It is a tabbed browser, but that's where any similarity to Chrome of Chromium ends.
Does anyone remember any excitement over Firefox when it was new? Or, for that matter, excitement over webkit and Chrome? Well - there's nothing to be excited about here. Firefox had more to offer in the early milestone versions than HandyBrowser does now.
Maybe I'll look at it again this time next year. If I remember this forgettable experience.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz