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Web of Trust systems only work in cooperative environments. In the presence of malicious parties they fail spectacularly.
by IncRnd 9y ago
Web of Trust systems only work in cooperative environments. In the presence of malicious parties they fail spectacularly.
- icebraining 9y agoHow so?
- IncRnd 9y agoA malicious actor can utilize a botnet to skew the crowdsourcing of trust, for example. In other words, in a WOT for identification, one's identification can be invalidated or stolen by someone who purchases cloud time.
- icebraining 9y agoWeb-of-Trust means there's a link between you and the other entity. The number of people who trust something is not really relevant, so crowdsourcing wouldn't matter. I know there was a service called WOT that relied on that, but in my opinion they were simply misusing the concept.
- IncRnd 9y agoA pgp wot or the wot that you refer to can be subverted. In the scenario of everyone's identification, the WOT covers everyone in the population not a small WOT inside a relatively much larger population.
- icebraining 9y agoHow can it be subverted?