@conference{CANS2014camera-ready,
  title = {A Censorship-Resistant, Privacy-Enhancing and Fully Decentralized Name System}, 
  author = {Matthias Wachs and Martin Schanzenbach and Christian Grothoff}, 
  booktitle = {International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS)}, 
  organization = {Springer Verlag}, 
  year = {2014}, 
  publisher = {Springer Verlag}, 
  abstract = {The Domain Name System (DNS) is vital for access to information on the
        Internet. This makes it a target for attackers whose aim is to suppress free
        access to information. This paper introduces the design and implementation of the
        GNU Name System (GNS), a fully decentralized and censorship-resistant name
        system. GNS provides a privacy-enhancing alternative to DNS which preserves the
        desirable property of memorable names. Due to its design, it can also double as a
        partial replacement of public key infrastructures, such as X.509. The design of
        GNS incorporates the capability to integrate and coexist with DNS. GNS is based
        on the principle of a petname system and builds on ideas from the Simple
        Distributed Security Infrastructure (SDSI), addressing a central issue with the
        decentralized mapping of secure identifiers to memorable names: namely the
        impossibility of providing a global, secure and memorable mapping without a
        trusted authority. GNS uses the transitivity in the SDSI design to replace the
        trusted root with secure delegation of authority, thus making petnames useful to
        other users while operating under a very strong adversary model. In addition to
        describing the GNS design, we also discuss some of the mechanisms that are needed
        to smoothly integrate GNS with existing processes and procedures in Web browsers.
        Specifically, we show how GNS is able to transparently support many assumptions
        that the existing HTTP(S) infrastructure makes about globally unique names}, 
  www_section = {DNS, GNU Name System, GNUnet, PKI}, 
  www_pdf_url = {https://git.gnunet.org/bibliography.git/plain/docs/paper_cans2014_camera_ready.pdf},
  www_tags = {selected}, 
  url = {https://bibliography.gnunet.org}, 
}