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From: Justus Ranvier <justusranvier@riseup.net>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Does anyone have anything at all signed by Satoshi's PGP key?
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:06:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54172A8E.2020605@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHLa0Owjs=6vhy_RSD+VSAZgBq2pSYv5HhCdA4-XCGgX=Z6dA@mail.gmail.com>


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On 09/15/2014 03:08 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Such guidelines are a perfect example of why PGP WoT is useless and
> stupid geek wanking.
> 
> A person's behavioural signature is what is relevant.  We know how
> Satoshi coded and wrote.  It was the online Satoshi with which we
> interacted.  The online Satoshi's PGP signature would be fine...
> assuming he established a pattern of use.

I wrote up an example of how the WoT and the behavior signature might be
combined via a game:

http://bitcoinism.blogspot.ch/2013/09/building-pgp-web-of-trust-that-people.html

tl;dr: "Identity" is not a name - it's a set of shared experiences with
other people. Identity systems that want to be successful should focus
on those shared experiences rather than names.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-15 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-13 13:55 [Bitcoin-development] Does anyone have anything at all signed by Satoshi's PGP key? Peter Todd
2014-09-13 14:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-09-14  6:28   ` Peter Todd
2014-09-15  7:23     ` Thomas Zander
2014-09-15  9:49       ` Melvin Carvalho
2014-09-15 13:08       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-09-15 13:32         ` Brian Hoffman
2014-09-15 14:33           ` Jeff Garzik
2014-09-15 14:49             ` Brian Hoffman
2014-09-15 14:55               ` Pieter Wuille
2014-09-15 14:38           ` ThomasZander.se
2014-09-15 15:10           ` Thomas Zander
2014-09-15 15:51             ` Matt Whitlock
2014-09-15 16:07               ` Thomas Zander
2014-09-15 16:10               ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-09-15 16:20                 ` Peter Todd
2014-09-15 14:44         ` Venzen
2014-09-15 18:06         ` Justus Ranvier [this message]

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