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Author: Amir Taaki
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To: unsystem
Subject: Re: [unSYSTEM] Reputation
Appeal to the black market and drug dealers on tor.
That's your market.

On 06/01/2014 08:23 AM, Alex Kravets wrote:
> 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@??? <mailto:thomas@standardcrypto.com>> 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@??? <mailto:meapistol@gmail.com>> 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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