On 2012-07-17 2:57 PM, ianG wrote:
On 17/07/12 13:48 PM, Poor Richard wrote:
It seems there are some inherent conflicts or trade-offs between
reliability, performance, security, and anonymity. Is there a way to
slam-dunk all four? There can't be a whole lot of ways to do that. The
harder you make the spec the fewer choices are left, right?
Start with Zooko's Triangle?
Which has never been fully implemented.
Nicknames, and acquiring petnames, is the social part of Zooko's
triangle, and the social part is always the hard part.
Globally unique names are easy, petnames are easy, but nicknames, to be
useful, need good search on nicknames and information about nicknames,
so nickname implementation tends to be sucky.
To make sure you have the right nickname, need zero knowledge passwords,
as implemented in OTR, which your aunt mabel would conceptualize as
something like logging on to get on the buddy list.
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