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The article doesn't really go into it, but most real life applications would not share every contact with every other contact. You can imagine a number of diff
by fwip 4y ago
The article doesn't really go into it, but most real life applications would not share every contact with every other contact. You can imagine a number of different solutions to this problem, but it's mostly a UX issue on how users would be most willing to share their contacts with others. Apps with different approaches could still share data with one another.
- zcw100 4y agoThere's a link in there for it but it would be easy to miss that does a much better job of explaining the system http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html A pentane system actually protects you from phishing attacks and you don't really share your pentanes. You can use your petname as a nickname when introducing a key to someone else. One of the most important parts is to have a good UI/UX that does not confuse nicknames with pentanes or allow you to accidentally accept a nickname as pentane that is confusingly close to an already existing petname. Nicknames are names that you propose using when introducing yourself or someone else. A pet name is the name you assign privately. So Lumberg could be a nickname but your petname might be "dickhead boss". You're free to introduce him to people you know either way you'd like.