On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:46 PM, DataPacRat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Eg, if I trust my own vCard at a level of 100 decibans, > I trust Alice's card at 30, and Alice trusts Bob's card at 40, it's > easy to determine that Bob's card should be trusted at somewhere under > 30 decibans. (Real situations would be much more complicated, such as > with multiple assertion paths; but this is still early days.) I've just realized that not only might this problem be easier to solve than I expected, it might already be solved. After waking from an unusual dream, I've realized that it may be possible to analyze trust networks with the same tools used to measure electrical networks; specifically, by treating the user as a voltage source, any individual as a node, and their level of trust in another individual/node as conductivity (the inverse of resistance). There are plenty of existing tools to perform analysis of bizarre electrical architectures, so if this model has any validity, it should be reasonably trivial to apply them to trust architectures, to work out how much current/trust emanating from the source/user arrives at any given node/individual. The question is whether this model /has/ any validity. I'm going to do all the reading I can think of on trust modeling, but would also appreciate any useful references anyone reading this might be able to offer. (I have a limited budget, so free-to-read references are preferred to paywalled ones.) Thank you for your time, -- DataPacRat "Then again, I could be wrong." _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
