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Re: Blockchain and Networking
From: "Dale W. Carder" <dwcarder () es net>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:46:35 -0600
Traceroute or any other path diagnostics comes to mind. Dale Thus spake Tom Beecher (beecher () beecher cc) on Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 12:22:43PM -0500:
"Blockchain is great at proving chain of custody, but when do you need to do that in computer networking?" This is the most important question to ask. Everything else is just buzzwordy shenanigans. On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 12:52 AM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 12:26 AM, Glen Kent <glen.kent () gmail com> wrote:Do folks on this list see blockchain technology making inroads into the networking? I can see blockchain being used to secure the SDN environment where blockchain will allow encrypted data transfers between nodes (ones hosting different applications, the SDN controller, the data planedevices)regardless of the network size or its geographical distribution.Hi Glen, I'm having trouble envisioning a scenario where blockchain does that any better than plain old PKI. Blockchain is great at proving chain of custody, but when do you need to do that in computer networking? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com bill () herrin us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
Current thread:
- Re: Blockchain and Networking, (continued)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Saku Ytti (Jan 10)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Brian Kantor (Jan 09)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Jörg Kost (Jan 09)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Tom Beecher (Jan 11)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Miles Fidelman (Jan 11)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking William Herrin (Jan 11)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking valdis . kletnieks (Jan 12)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Christopher Morrow (Jan 12)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Fredrik Korsbäck (Jan 17)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Alex White-Robinson (Jan 22)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Dale W. Carder (Jan 11)