From 819902e265d157a76bf6423896960c56c6fd7df6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Woodburn Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 02:55:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: create home --- home.md | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 home.md diff --git a/home.md b/home.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c00822b --- /dev/null +++ b/home.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +title: Home +description: Handypedia the wiki for everything Handshake related +published: 1 +date: 2024-02-09T02:55:52.074Z +tags: +editor: markdown +dateCreated: 2024-02-09T02:55:52.074Z +--- + +# Handypedia + +Welcome to the Handshake Wiki, +for all your Handshake information needs. +This wiki is maintained by the Handshake community. + +## Handshake +![hnsw.png](/hnsw.png) +[Handshake](https://en.handypedia.org/wiki/Handshake) is a decentralized DNS root zone that eliminates the need to trust potential bad actors like ICANN and certificate authorities. Handshake uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: domain ownership and transfers are carried out collectively by the network. + +Handshake is a completely decentralized project and there is no official singular Foundation, Committee, Corporation, or entities in permanent unitary control of the protocol. + +Handshake is the first successful implementation of a *distributed alternative DNS root zone*. Building upon the notion that the internet should be decentralized, Handshake is designed around the idea of using cryptography to control the creation and transfer of top-level domains, rather than relying on central authorities. + +Handshake names have all the desirable properties of a top-level domain. They are secure, private, durable, useful, and difficult to counterfeit. + +## Why +Names on Handshake are valuable over legacy systems because they are secured by a decentralized peer-to-peer network. Handshake seeks to address the root problem with legacy DNS: all the trust that's required to make it work -- Not that justified trust is a bad thing, but trust makes systems brittle, opaque, and costly to operate. Trust failures result in systemic collapses, trust curation creates inequality and monopoly lock-in, and naturally arising trust choke-points can be abused to deny access to due process. Through the use of cryptographic proof, decentralized networks, and open source software, Handshake minimizes and replaces these trust costs. + +Handshake names are: +- Permissionless and borderless. The software can be installed by anybody worldwide. +- Anonymous. Handshake does not require any ID to use making it suitable for the the privacy-conscious. +- Private. When used with care Handshake can support strong privacy. +- Censorship-resistant. Nobody is able to block or seize a name on Handshake. +- Online and available 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. \ No newline at end of file