[Freedombox-discuss] Web of Trust Questions

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Dec 14 11:55:54 UTC 2011


On 12/13/2011 06:16 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:

> bitcoin otc WOT, which also combines with GPG, ,and thinking about
> scaling it to the whole web : http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratings.php

Someone into bitcoin-otc brought a proposal for scaling their "web of
trust" up on sks-devel.  I didn't think it was very well specified or
even particularly well thought-through.

here's the thread:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/sks-devel/2011-12/msg00010.html

i remain quite dubious about supposedly general-purpose global "ranking"
schemes.  They usually seem to me to be either under-specified or
internally inconsistent.

	--dkg

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