On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Chas. <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't believe it is possible to ever determine if some entity is
> trustworthy or not if there is no absolute way to identify them. Even if
> some entity was to appear trustworthy, add a few "sybils" and leave, you
> could never be sure the next entity to show up is really the original
> untrustworthy entity or not.


You can uniquely identify peers by public key cryptography. To solve the
Sybil problem though, freshly-created identities should be worthless, much
as people who have no credit fare worse than people with bad credit in a
credit rating system.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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