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

[Sunder]

Simple.  Once the buyer has the keys she issues an email saying "I'm
changing my keys, here's the new public key" and signs it with the old key
- thus proving that the nym's original message was valid, thus
invalidating the old one.  Duh!


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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Adam Shostack wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 12:14:13PM -0800, Wei Dai wrote:
> | On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:53:02PM -0800, georgemw at speakeasy.net wrote:
> | > Even this is not a scalar.  Since reputation cannot be bought
> | > and sold, the idea that it is worth a specific well defined amount is
> | > false.
> | 
> | If you own a nym, you can easily sell its reputation. Just give the
> | private key to the buyer.
> 
> How does the buyer ensure that I haven't kept a copy?  If what I'm
> selling is a nym, then without the nym, I am anonymous.  Adding layers 
> of nymity for reputation with partial disclosure seems a complex and
> failure-prone approach. 
> 
> Adam
> 
> -- 
> "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
> 					               -Hume