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Web (OpenAlias): openalias.org
Web (Monero): getmonero.org
Forum: forum.getmonero.org
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OpenAlias seeks to provide a way to simplify aliasing amidst a rapidly shifting technology climate. Users are trying to cross the bridge to private and cryptographically secure infrastructure and systems, but many of them have just barely started remembering the email addresses of their friends and family. At its most basic, OpenAlias is a TXT DNS record on a FQDN (fully qualified domain name). By combining this with DNS-related technologies we have created an aliasing standard that is extensible for developers, intuitive and familiar for users, and can interoperate with both centralised and decentralised domain systems. This is a library that is used to facilitate those lookups.
In order to ensure that lookups do not betray the user's privacy it is best to implement DNSCrypt from OpenDNS, and force resolution via a DNSCrypt-compatible resolver.
The time of this project's inception there were no general use DNSCrypt implementations, and the normal recommended implementation was via dnscrypt-proxy. This makes for a poor user experience, from the perspective of OpenAlias, and so we set out to create a 100% Python implementation for our OpenAlias plugin for the Electrum Bitcoin wallet.
Anyone is able to contribute to dnscrypt-python. If you have a fix or code change, feel free to submit is as a pull request directly to the main branch. In cases where the change is relatively small or does not affect other parts of the codebase it may be merged in immediately by any one of the collaborators. On the other hand, if the change is particularly large or complex, it is expected that it will be discussed at length either well in advance of the pull request being submitted, or even directly on the pull request.
OpenAlias and Monero development can be supported directly through donations.
Both Monero and Bitcoin donations can be made to donate.getmonero.org if using a client that supports the OpenAlias standard
The Monero donation address is: 46BeWrHpwXmHDpDEUmZBWZfoQpdc6HaERCNmx1pEYL2rAcuwufPN9rXHHtyUA4QVy66qeFQkn6sfK8aHYjA3jk3o1Bv16em (viewkey: e422831985c9205238ef84daf6805526c14d96fd7b059fe68c7ab98e495e5703)
The Bitcoin donation address is: 1FhnVJi2V1k4MqXm2nHoEbY5LV7FPai7bb
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