"Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat

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very good
p.j
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim May <tcmay at got.net>
To: <cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality


>
>
> On Friday, November 30, 2001, at 01:56 PM, Wei Dai wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I'm writing a response to your long reply to my long article.
>
> (You hadn't responded to my article for some number of days after it
> appeared, which is fine, but that's why I haven't felt pressured to
> reply immediately to your reply.)
>
> I'll try to get it out later today or tomorrow.
>
> But so there's no suspense, I'm not claiming a better cryptographic
> protocol, certainly not involving distributed key registries for nym
> reputations. It's that whole approach I'm arguing against.
>
> Which I think I argued for reasonably well in the long post. If you or
> others are not convinced, fine. But I will send off the reply on
> specific points later, tonight or tomorrow.
>
>
>
> --Tim May
> "Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David
> Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11
>