MWD wrote:
Have you looked at MeowBit?
MeowBit, View censorship-resistant Dot-Bit (Namecoin domains) on ANY Browser. NOT a plug-in:
http://meowbit.com/
It says it's for Windows, I don't trust Windows. It's good that more software is being developed to make it easier to browse .bit websites, but Windows isn't for me. I use Firefox, so FreeSpeechMe works for me on my desktop computers, I still need to find/make/troll some developers into making a solution for Android for my phones & tablet.
You should remember that Namecoin isn't (yet?) very censorship resistant & wont stop any censors from blocking websites without combining it with Tor, even then Tor can be blocked. It stops the US (or any other) government seizing your .bit, but real censorship systems are done at IP level, not DNS, they just use the DNS record to find IP addresses to block. So the only real censorship busting use is to use it as a short name for a tor/i2p site, along with Namecoin TLS. It might be good to promote it to some darknet websites, give them a short memorable name for their .onion site, but it's not really very useful for other websites yet. The TLS spec seems good & should be a big selling point it's free secure encryption, better than a cheap domain validated SSL certificate. Other features to make .bit more useful could be added later too, if we get more developers with more time & ideas to improve it. Once more developers start to see Namecoin as a solution for some of their problems they'll use it more & promote it more.
id/ seems more interesting & useful than d/ to me, that needs promoting more.
I'm sick of registering for websites, having to enter my email address & other details over and over for different websites gets tiring. Managing different usernames & passwords for different sites is a real hassle too & ends up being insecure for most people. I'd like to see more websites using namecoin id/ for login & registration, like
https://nameid.org does. One of my next little projects is to port that login system to Drupal, then possibly other popular open source website content management systems & apps. The source code is here:
https://gitorious.org/nameid/ port it to your websites so I can use my namecoin id (not the openid from nameid.org) to login & register on your websites. If you do that I'll take a picture of my friend's cat doing something stupid & upload it with my namecoin id.
If we're talking about websites to promote using .bit/namecoin then this one is in need of serious improvement too. The cookies don't work for the .bit, the SSL cert is invalid for the .info. It uses plain text login & doesn't enforce encryption. No doubt they didn't totally rewrite phpbb's insecure session handling or password hashing system either.