{"id":"8ee9d576-ecb3-51b9-b6d1-2308a2d5a907","kind":"assembly","name":"Namecoin and Tor PKI 2025","slug":"namecoin-and-tor-pki-2025","url":"https://api.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/event/8ee9d576-ecb3-51b9-b6d1-2308a2d5a907/?format=json","track":null,"assembly":"cdc","room":"c61e6141-f206-424d-99af-1391b103eace","location":null,"language":"en","description":"Topics to be covered include:\r\n\r\n* How we can use Namecoin as a PKI with ~0 bytes of blockchain overhead.\r\n* How Namecoin's smart contract functionality (allowing multisig and timelocks to control updating a name) interacts with PKI use cases.\r\n* How we generalized Namecoin and Tor PKI to work with non-TLS protocols.\r\n* How revocations can be handled securely.\r\n* How we ensured anonymity (including Tor stream isolation) despite TLS implementations not providing API's for this.\r\n* How the anonymity protections actually *improved* performance.\r\n* How all of the above interoperates with existing software.","schedule_start":"2025-12-27T19:30:00+01:00","schedule_duration":"00:30:00","schedule_end":"2025-12-27T20:00:00+01:00"}