Illusional delusions
Adam Shostack
adam at homeport.org
Tue Dec 25 13:38:06 PST 2001
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 12:53:18AM -0600, someone claiming to be Black Unicorn wrote:
| > Thinking aloud ... this may be silly:
| >
| > Let's start from something that works - secret key message exchange,
| > maybe enhanced with PK key exchange for the carefree. A person, by
| > defintion, trusts itself, so currency known only to the two parties
| > should be reasonably safe. Every pair of traders have their own
| > currency. A disbalance (A owes B but C owes A) is resolved by creating
| > new B-C currency. There is no anonymity, but the network is hardly
| > connected and therefore reasonably safe. The system is hardly new but it
| > was never done in software AFAIK. You never do business with someone
| > whose reputation you can't instrument. But someone can start a business
| > for reputation building. Again, hardly new.
|
| Not new? Name 5 prominent reputation brokers. Reputation services?
| Reputation clearing agents? What manner of reputation do they measure?
| Trustworthiness? Identity? Creditworthiness? One? None? All? (I can
| only think of two, neither of which approach the level of sophistication you
| propose here).
Dun and Bradstreet
Standard and Poors
Consumers Union
Visa
Experian
The Food and Drug Administration (interesting because you'll sometimes
see "Approved by the US FDA" on not-for-the-US packaging, but they're
number 6 on my list.)
Just had to pick that nit.
Adam
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