On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 03:20 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
In the absence of any objective criteria, I may call the certificate program
"Friends of Fourth World", and limit it to people I know personally
(literally friends). Since I know most of the folks likely to add lots of
entries into RevNet's index, today it's not much of an issue. But down the
road, as Rev's audience grows, I'd like to find some means of verifying
"trustworthiness" but without risking offending anyone.
Any suggestions?
It occurs to me that the "web of trust" concept in public-key cryptography, like PGP, would be appropriate in this situation. You don't know person X, but a friend of a friend of a "Friends of Fourth World" may be able to vouch for person X.
Maybe you can implement something like that in Revnet. Maybe something with MD5 or the other built-in Rev tools
A google search for "web of trust" +PGP has lots of hits.
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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