Comment by alrs
9 days ago
One could build up a reputation with a completely anonymous PGP key. That was somewhat the point of USENET ca. 1998.
9 days ago
One could build up a reputation with a completely anonymous PGP key. That was somewhat the point of USENET ca. 1998.
I think we could do something like that again. Need a reputation to follow you around. Humans need to know who they are dealing with.
I want that to be how things work, although recent history has not been favorable when it comes to Public Key Infrastructure as applied to individuals. Inconvenience, foot-guns, required technical expertise levels, the pain of revocation lists...
In a sense, it seems Accellerando got a lot more right than not ( reputation markets in this particular case ). We may be arguing over the best way to do it, but it seems that the conclusion was already drawn.
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