Re: Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:28:58PM -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:

Following which, Alice pulls out the pre-dated revocation certificate, and generates confusion as to the validity of Bob's key change message.

I guess we would need a distributed public registry of key change/revocation messages that guarantees only one such message will be posted per key, and any revocation messages not posted to this registry would be ignored. Again, I don't think reputation capital is the best solution to the problem that it tries to solve. I'm just trying to defend it against the charge that it's a nonsensical idea. I still propose b-money as a better alternative. Maybe Tim has found an even better solution, and if so I certainly look forward to seeing it.