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Re: The future of security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Fri May 28 15:32:08 2004
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Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 21:07:26 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: bear <bear@sonic.net>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:46:03AM -0700, bear wrote:
> Spam won't stop until spam costs the spammers money.
If I'm a node in a web of trust (FOAF is a human), prestige will=20
percolate through it completely. That way I can color a whole domain with a
nonboolean trust hue, while a domain of fakers will have only very few
connections (through compromises, or human mistakes), which will rapidly se=
aled,
once actually used to do something to lower their prestige ("I signed the k=
ey
of a spammer, please kill me now").=20
Of course, tracking prestige globally, robustly in a p2p fashion is
difficult, and will require agoric load levelling elements (to prevent bad
nodes from DoSing the global store) which also requires prestige tracking.
--=20
Eugen* Leitl <a href=3D"http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
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