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> this just shifts the burden of who to trust to the verifiers Agreed. A colleague once said that trust is like a balloon; if you reduce trust in one area, you
by ENOTTY 6y ago
> this just shifts the burden of who to trust to the verifiers
Agreed. A colleague once said that trust is like a balloon; if you reduce trust in one area, you tend to expand trust in another area.
I think the typical response to your statement from a user is that it’s easier to trust a set of verifiers than it is to trust a vendor. The act of a verifier blessing an artifact makes that artifact more trustworthy.
Personally I’m skeptical of these claims, but that’s the underlying assumption of the certification process
- ta8594505930 6y agoPresumably there is benefit in reducing trust in a party with mixed or unknown incentives to increase trust in a party whose incentives align with your own. For a critical piece of software I could imagine a schema where a user pays one or more independent verifiers to validate the software. That would allow the user to control the incentives of the entities telling them the software is safe.