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

[Adam Shostack]

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

Duh, indeed.

Adam

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 01:34:53PM -0500, Sunder wrote:
| 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

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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume