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September 26, 2013
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The Problem with Authority

The Problem with Authority in Distributed Systems (For Nodeconf.eu)

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September 26, 2013

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Transcript

  1. The problem with Authority BUREAUCRACY, CORPORATE INFLUENCE & TRUST Thursday,

    September 26, 13

  2. massive amounts of software & data We create Thursday, September

    26, 13

  3. & widely distributed We want it to be highly available

    Thursday, September 26, 13

  4. the authenticity & origin of things We want to validate

    Thursday, September 26, 13

  5. Today we have A BUREAUCRACY & A TECHNICAL QUANDARY Thursday,

    September 26, 13

  6. 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

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

  8. Try to define identity Thursday, September 26, 13

  9. Try to replicate identity Thursday, September 26, 13

  10. ␡ Try to revoke identity Thursday, September 26, 13

  11. ✓ Try to define policies Thursday, September 26, 13

  12. Sybil attacks Revocation lists Replication Latency Financial Concerns Problems in

    reputation systems ␡ Thursday, September 26, 13

  13. How should we define Identity? WITHOUT CENTRALIZED AUTHORITY Thursday, September

    26, 13

  14. Social networks define identity as behaviors & interactions over time

    Thursday, September 26, 13

  15. public & private key cryptography Simple tools for Thursday, September

    26, 13

  16. data & software to actual authors Let’s start mapping Thursday,

    September 26, 13

  17. github.com/hij1nx/pkp Thursday, September 26, 13

  18. hash (data) public key URLs cert = sign(private key, meta)

    meta { Thursday, September 26, 13

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

    13

  20. Twitter Thursday, September 26, 13

  21. / hij1nx ! " fin Thursday, September 26, 13