On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 12:50:48AM -0400, zem wrote:
Not so. What stops editors' output to be re-distributed at zero cost ?
Editor produces output in the form of signatures that indicate approval of content. Editor encrypts content to customers' public key before signing it. Customer can't redistribute Editor's signature in a form that's useful to anyone else without also distributing his own secret key. Hence, re-distributing Editor's output is at the cost of revealing one's own secret key (which will have financial consequences if Editor arranges the deal correctly).
But Mallet can just strip her signature and substitute his and build up a reputation as a quality editor without doing any work. Nobody needs HER signature if his judgements/filtering are just as good....
There are probably neater ways of achieving the same result.
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