Voicedotbit

From Namecoin DNS

Overview

Voicedotbit is a GUI for namecoin written in c++ using gtkmm-2.4 for the user interface. Eventually it will be a voice onion router using namecoin for identity management. The namecoin related features are fully functional. It connects to namecoind using JSON-RPC calls. On the first startup, it tries to self-configure by reading USER/.namecoin/bitcoin.conf. Failing this, it guesses default values.

Features

Register names
Update names
Send NMC
View addresses
Manage/update names
View transactions
View network info
Configure namecoind connection
Buddy List (doesn't do anything right now)

Platform

So far, it has only been tested on Ubuntu 10.04. Other Linux distributions should work. See the INSTALL file for details.

Dependencies

libssl (openssl)
libcurl
libasio c++ networking library
boost c++ libraries (1.40 - linking to 1.42 doesn't work)
sqlite3
gtkmm

Name/Value Format

(This is a work in progress. Comments are welcome on the discussion page.)

It's probably impossible to enforce a namespace since transaction confirmation doesn't care about whether the namespace has an appropriate value. Informally, "v/" will be used.

The value type would vary slightly, depending on the type of user.

{
  "version": 1,
  "subtype": "user",
  "public_signing_key": "MWRmN3M3Nmp2OGEzbnY0MDF2TlJTMFBzNTY1MVZma3M=",
  "public_encryption_key": "TVdSbU4zTTNObXAyT0dFemJuWTBNREYyVGxKVE1GQno=",
  "relays": [ "v/egalitarian" , "d/niceguy" , "v/charity" ]
}

Note: The number of relays is variable.

{
  "version": 1,
  "subtype": "relay",
  "public_signing_key": "MWRmN3M3Nmp2OGEzbnY0MDF2TlJTMFBzNTY1MVZma3M=",
  "public_encryption_key": "TVdSbU4zTTNObXAyT0dFemJuWTBNREYyVGxKVE1GQno=",
  "address": "70.60.50.40:9655",
  "btc_address": "1FhMcuy9nYGgNtgb7Rf4CgEYZe6asfJboU",
  "nmc_address": "NDc579WNW9TTsayZ7K25bgrfAQ1v3ncoFz"
}

Note: A single entry cannot contain both relay and user information. Publishing an address would compromise a user's identity. A user and a relay could both operate some the same host. If Alice wants to be both a user and a relay, she could register two names: d/alice and d/princealbert. She would configure d/alice as a user, d/princealbert as a relay and keep her ownership of the d/princealbert confidential.