The Problem with Authority

The problem with Authority BUREAUCRACY, CORPORATE INFLUENCE & TRUST Thursday,
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massive amounts of software & data We create Thursday, September
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& widely distributed We want it to be highly available
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the authenticity & origin of things We want to validate

Today we have A BUREAUCRACY & A TECHNICAL QUANDARY Thursday,
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We can’t solve problems with the same level of thinking
that created them. “ A Nice Quote from some smart person Thursday, September 26, 13

Reputation Systems PKI, SPKI, SDSI... Thursday, September 26, 13

Try to deﬁne identity Thursday, September 26, 13

Try to replicate identity Thursday, September 26, 13

␡ Try to revoke identity Thursday, September 26, 13

✓ Try to deﬁne policies Thursday, September 26, 13

Sybil attacks Revocation lists Replication Latency Financial Concerns Problems in
reputation systems ␡ Thursday, September 26, 13

How should we deﬁne Identity? WITHOUT CENTRALIZED AUTHORITY Thursday, September
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Social networks deﬁne identity as behaviors & interactions over time

public & private key cryptography Simple tools for Thursday, September
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data & software to actual authors Let’s start mapping Thursday,
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github.com/hij1nx/pkp Thursday, September 26, 13

hash (data) public key URLs cert = sign(private key, meta)
meta { Thursday, September 26, 13

hash(data) = cert.hash + verify(public key, cert) Thursday, September 26,
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Twitter Thursday, September 26, 13

/ hij1nx ! " ﬁn Thursday, September 26, 13

The Problem with Authority

The Problem with Authority

Paolo Fragomeni

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