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the idea is that if there's a late auditable solution, then today's methods of doing it on the down low become distasteful. they're gonna do it regardless, but

by a-dub 8y ago

the idea is that if there's a late auditable solution, then today's methods of doing it on the down low become distasteful. they're gonna do it regardless, but the politicians may agree to forcing them down a process that is publicly auditable in the long run... basically if late auditability makes it possible for them to do their jobs, then the basis for today's sketchy down low approach is ameliorated.

dane-pgp 8y ago
Right, this is basically Binary Transparency, with the same sort of social mechanisms in place as Certificate Transparency has for dealing with misbehaving CAs. The idea of storing release hashes (or public keys) in a distributed, permissionless, append-only log actually makes a lot of sense, and there are several serious proposals for how to do this, such as EthIKS: http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/B16b-BITCOIN-ethiks.pdf http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/B16b-BITCOIN-ethiks.pdf and Contour: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.08427.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.08427.pdf