Convergence

I wonder why moxie's Convergence [0] didn't take off. To me it sounds near-perfect. It could handle multiple layers of authenticity, including DNS. The project has been inactive on GitHub for 5 years [1], however the Namecoin project picked it up [2] as "FreeSpeechMe" and added support for IPv6, and .bit, .onion, .b32.i2p domains. Now this, too, has been discontinued "because Mozilla removed the relevant API's as of Firefox 33". They "intend to release a replacement soon". According to Jeremy Rand [3] "A replacement is in the works (and is mostly working already)", but the source doesn't seem to be public or I can't find it. Are there any downsides of Convergence? 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA 1: https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence/ 2: https://github.com/namecoin/Convergence/ 3: https://twitter.com/biolizard89/status/71

Derivatives of Moxie Marlinspike's Convergence cert plugin that allows you to assign your own trust authorities for verifying signatures. [0] [0] https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence/network

massive latency mostly. although there are a lot of issues[0] on it's github page which seem to be unaddressed. [0] - https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence/issues

As an update, I was hacking on https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence to try to get it working on modern FF. FF supports binding system libraries to JS objects. (If anyone knows how to modernize a FF extension, please help: https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence/issues/178)

Unfortunately this project seems to have stalled; according to https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence the code hasn't seen significant updates since 2011. A similar more up-to-date alternative is Perspectives: http://perspectives-project.org/

The code (the firefox extension and the server in Python) is available at github: https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence