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A web of trust would not need to be too deep to start working. After all, it takes just a couple of acquaintance hops to connect 90% of the people on Earth. Not
by iwr 16y ago
A web of trust would not need to be too deep to start working. After all, it takes just a couple of acquaintance hops to connect 90% of the people on Earth. Not sure about the 6-degrees-of-separation thing, but it's probably on the order of that.
The greater problem of a distributed system would be public key revocation, because you have to go through your entire contacts list to publish a new key.
- mooism2 16y agoThe point is that you need someone to prevent name conflicts, and that person/organisation is a single point of failure who can be pressured by governments/corporations to revoke names they don't like.