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Re: The future of security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Sun May 30 12:50:48 2004
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From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 23:01:11 -0400
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Eugen Leitl writes:
> If I'm a node in a web of trust (FOAF is a human), prestige will
> 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 sealed, once actually used to do
> something to lower their prestige ("I signed the key of a spammer,
> please kill me now").
http://www.web-o-trust.org/
The trouble is that it requires human action, which is expensive and
becoming more expensive.
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