Thanks for your answer, I think web of trust or tic for tac is not the best solution. Today's telcos face the thread that anyday P2P networks come up which will take over most of the customers by offering the same services but much cheaper. Today's telecommunication infrastructure is adopted to IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) but the future may be P2P networks where the network owns only some intelligence. Applications on the client will be intelligent enough to start a phone call, ... . These networks can be build up very fast and are cheaper as to scale up a network infrastructure with increasing load. The system should be open to be able to integrate new services in a short time. Skype is already very popular and its customer numbers still goes up. But Skype is only secure while it isn't open source, the code and everything else is secret (question how long until someone hacks it, soon I think). That's the reason that Skype seems to be secure.
But an open P2P network, where the architecture, its protocols are open and available for everyone you still face a lot of security problems. If these problems are solved the Telcos (Telecommunication company) will have bigger problems as they already have today. I need solutions that are 100% secure, not 80% or 79% as many trust or reputation systems computed its values. The customer wants to make the call or use other services with a guaranty of 99,9999%. regards, M. Pierer -- Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft für 0,- Euro*! "Feel free" mit GMX DSL! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
