indolering wrote:biolizard89 wrote:
If indolering's issue with local clients is that they don't auto-renew, that's fixable. I haven't heard any other complaints about local clients.
My issue with local clients is that there is no recourse for non-technical users who screw up and are unable to renew their domain, due to lost keys, forgetting to renew, trashing their computer, etc. Registrars provide a valuable service for the 99% of people who don't need to worry about the government coming after their domain.
Lost keys and trashed computers are dealt with via paper backups, which Armory supports. That's a major reason I'd like to use Armory for Namecoin (along with the fact that it has a really nice GUI).
Forgetting to renew can be dealt with by trust-free delegated renewal, for which Ryan, Luke, and I came up with a proposal.
Relying on trusting a registrar is extremely unwise. It's not just the government that's the problem -- a large registrar is a juicy target for attackers, and the registrar operators themselves might be evil.
@phelix, Electrum uses libbitcoin; it's going to be extremely hard to use it for Namecoin unless we port libbitcoin. Also, Electrum's security properties are extremely sucky for name purposes... it's worse than using it for currency purposes.
@indolering, I'm pretty strongly against re-inventing another GUI. I think we should use an existing GUI if at all possible. Also, a web-browser-based GUI has immense attack surface compared to something like Armory.
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