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Re: [Sks-devel] Requesting your thoughts on a web of trust scheme
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Robert J. Hansen |
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Re: [Sks-devel] Requesting your thoughts on a web of trust scheme |
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Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:36:36 -0500 |
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On 12/9/2011 12:36 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> I'm not sure this is OT on sks-devel, unfortunately, so it'll be my last
> post on-list on this thread.
Likewise, although I suspect here is as on-topic a place as we'll find.
>> http://privwiki.dreamhosters.com/wiki/Distributed_Web_of_Trust_Proposal
>
> I see two main ways the proposal could use improvement as presented:
I'll reduce my criticisms down to a very simple one:
Trust is a human concept, not a mathematical one. We all know someone
who trusts someone they shouldn't, even though they know better. Odds
are good that we're examples of this ourselves (I know I am).
OpenPGP gets around this by using the word "trust" in an extremely
narrow sense, one that makes it useful for a particular task and not
much more. This proposal never defines trust with sufficient precision
for me to feel comfortable with the document: it attempts to create an
infrastructure to support ... what, exactly?
Until the problem can be precisely and accurately described, no solution
is possible.
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