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If you're correct, I don't really see what is novel here. If I already had a group of 50 people I could trust, what would I need this software for? How is thi

• wpietri 13y ago
  Again, I've just skimmed a couple of presentations, so I could be off. That said, the tech definitely looks novel. One application that comes to mind is human rights abuse reporting. Let's suppose I get 100 volunteers in the field with software based on this. Some of them are agents of the abusive regime; most are sincere. All communications are monitored by the government. If I read the presentation correctly, anybody can submit an incident report that we can be sure came from one of the probably-trusted, but that can't be traced back to an individual. Another application they mention is secure voting. Let's say you're part of a cabal like WikiLeaks. You could use it to do untraceable but reliable internal anonymous voting on whether a given document gets released or not.