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Decentralized identity revocation requires a blockchain. It's easy enough to give people statements that you control a given public key. It's hard for them to k
by natrius 11y ago
Decentralized identity revocation requires a blockchain. It's easy enough to give people statements that you control a given public key. It's hard for them to know whether they should still trust that key. Blockchains are the only systems that are censorship-resistant enough for us to rely on for this purpose.
Sure, lots of people have done lots of thought experiments about what to use blockchains for, some of which weren't the best. However, if you haven't gone through that period yourself, your blockchain use cases are probably too narrow.
- petra 11y agoHow does this work ? what happen when someone steals my blockchain master-key ?
- natrius 11y agoYou write a revocation message to the blockchain signed by your key. Now anyone who is trying to verify your identity can prove that it has been revoked.
- murbard2 11y agoAnyone can get Edward Snowden's public key on the Internet, so no, Blockchains clearly aren't the only system which is censorship resistant enough to achieve this goal. I've been thinking about blockchain use cases pretty extensively for the past two years and written extensively both personally and pseudonymously on the topic. That doesn't mean I have to be right, but if I'm wrong, it's not for a lack of reflection on the matter.
- natrius 11y agoI said things about key revocation. You said nothing about key revocation. How is that a retort?