[p2p-hackers] Petnames Go Mainstream

[Lucas Gonze]

Popularization is always nice, I guess, but I can't believe that neither 
Schneier nor Cory knew about this stuff, which is as basic as air in the 
p2p subculture.

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Alen Peacock wrote:

> First Schneier linked to Mark Stiegler's paper in his blog today (
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/02/petnames.html), then
> boingboing picked up the story (
> http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/08/fascinating_solution.html).
>
> I imagine you are getting a nice little surge in traffic at your site today,
> Zooko?
>
> Nice to see some of this stuff being explained to the masses (even if those
> masses are mostly made up of technical folk anyway) -- it makes
> proselytizing this type of technology more feasible when a general audience
> has some grasp of the concepts.
>
>  Alen
>