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I had a similar thought with regard to verifying employment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204401 Maybe we
by RankingMember 12y ago
I had a similar thought with regard to verifying employment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204401
Maybe we're on to something.
- foolinaround 12y agoso, basically, a person signs up with some site with high degree of identification ( ssn, state id, email id, office id card, whatever, depending on the situation ). So, his identity with the central site is intact. Then, this person creates a throwaway id for this particular posting, and this throwaway cannot be openly linked back to the person, by anyone other than the site itself. The weakness of course is in the central site. And to solve this problem, there are a few decentralized trust solutions
- RankingMember 12y agoI like this. The vulnerability lies with the verifying site, so it would need to be crazy secure. Know any seasoned web developers with some crypto knowledge?