Handshake
Handshake Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol in which every peer is responsible for validation and for managing the root DNS naming zone, with the goal of creating an alternative to existing certificate authorities and naming systems. Names on the internet (top-level domains, social network accounts, etc.) ultimately depend on centralized participants; these participants have complete control over a system, and people rely on them to remain honest, but they are vulnerable to hacking, censorship, and corruption.Handshake It aims to explore new ways in which the internet can become more secure, resilient, and useful to society, using a peer-to-peer system jointly validated by network participants.Handshake Handshake is an experiment aimed at exploring new ways to build the tools needed for a more decentralized internet. Internet services have become increasingly centralized since the 1990s, yet they have not achieved the internet's original decentralized vision. Email became Gmail, newsgroups became Reddit, blog replies became Facebook and Medium, trackbacks became Twitter, Squid proxies became cloud services, and even peer-to-peer file-sharing networks became The Pirate Bay. Centralization exists because people need to manage spam, malicious harassment, and sockpuppet accounts and Sybil attacks. Most previous decentralized systems stopped functioning because of spam. If the cost of malicious disruption on the internet using decentralized systems is higher, fewer trusted centralized companies will be needed to manage these risks. Internet services and platforms may benefit from being built on decentralized systems specifically designed to be resilient against Sybil attacks. Just as we may reimplement decentralization.
Overview
Handshake Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol in which every peer is responsible for validation and for managing the root DNS naming zone, with the goal of creating an alternative to existing certificate authorities and naming systems. Names on the internet (top-level domains, social network accounts, etc.) ultimately depend on centralized participants; these participants have complete control over a system, and people rely on them to remain honest, but they are vulnerable to hacking, censorship, and corruption.Handshake It aims to explore new ways in which the internet can become more secure, resilient, and useful to society, using a peer-to-peer system jointly validated by network participants.Handshake Handshake is an experiment aimed at exploring new ways to build the tools needed for a more decentralized internet. Internet services have become increasingly centralized since the 1990s, yet they have not achieved the internet's original decentralized vision. Email became Gmail, newsgroups became Reddit, blog replies became Facebook and Medium, trackbacks became Twitter, Squid proxies became cloud services, and even peer-to-peer file-sharing networks became The Pirate Bay. Centralization exists because people need to manage spam, malicious harassment, and sockpuppet accounts and Sybil attacks. Most previous decentralized systems stopped functioning because of spam. If the cost of malicious disruption on the internet using decentralized systems is higher, fewer trusted centralized companies will be needed to manage these risks. Internet services and platforms may benefit from being built on decentralized systems specifically designed to be resilient against Sybil attacks. Just as we may reimplement decentralization.