Ted Smith wrote:
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 15:59 -0500, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
Hey, it's great to relive the classics! :)
And it's great to have a front-row seat to the replay, for us second-generation cypherpunks who never saw the original!
Second-generation? Man, do I feel old! Detweiler's rantings may not be fully accurate, but they do serve to outline the basic ideas of pseudonymity. They're worth a visit, if only for some historical perspective. http://sattlers.org/mickey/culture/humor/items/Geekish/theoryOfNymity.html As well, Tim May's Cyphernomicon has some good info about reputation capital. https://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/chapter15.html Cory Docterow calls reputation capital "Whuffie", and goes into some detail on how it might work (assuming a slightly sci-fi infrastructure in the bargain). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie Even without Docterow's Whuffie meter, repcap exists today. There are quite a few nyms that I trust to be reputable, even though I've never met them in person and don't know their True Names. Welcome to the Other Plane. -- Roy M. Silvernail is roy@rant-central.com, and you're not "It's just this little chromium switch, here." - TFT http://www.rant-central.com