Bitshares people are attempting a fully decentralized solution for strong
identities called Keyhotee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pZaTdEtK-8

It's a competitor to http://onename.io/ which sits on top of namecoin.

It's not clear which one, if any, will see wide adoption.

If there is something compelling to make 100 million people switch from
gmail then it might happen, if not, these will remain niche systems w/o
widespread support or adoption.

Cheers ...



On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Thomas Hartman <thomas@???>
wrote:

> It's non trivial.
>
> Key distribution is the hard part, because of MITM attack.
>
> Decentralized approach: Web of trust works but is hard to use and
> therefore hard to bootstrap. (Why no one uses pgp, and even fewer
> people use WOT).
>
> https://keybase.io/ is sort of half decentralized hybrid for pgp key
> distribution.
>
> If you're ok with centralized there are many approaches, but then you
> have single point of failure.
>
> Other interesting things to google/link:
>
> bitid
>
> http://bitcoinism.blogspot.com/2013/09/building-pgp-web-of-trust-that-people.html
>
> various approaches to token authentication for kyc/aml using crypto
> currencies (mastercoin/counterparty discussions)
>
> truthcoin
>
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Mats-Erik Pistol <meapistol@???>
> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > There are many applications that need a reputation system.
> > Would it not be handy to have a reputation server, probably connected
> with a
> > public key server?
> > Maybe this has been thought of before but I have not really read about
> it.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Mats-Erik
> >
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