Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

The Problem with Authority

Avatar for Paolo Fragomeni Paolo Fragomeni
September 26, 2013
Technology
0
190

The Problem with Authority

The Problem with Authority in Distributed Systems (For Nodeconf.eu)
Avatar for Paolo Fragomeni

Paolo Fragomeni

September 26, 2013
Tweet

More Decks by Paolo Fragomeni

See All by Paolo Fragomeni
Fireflies, Ants and Bees! Mother Nature builds effective, fault tolerant, distributed systems!
Avatar for Paolo Fragomeni hij1nx
0
280
Node Dublin
Avatar for Paolo Fragomeni hij1nx
0
390
Thinking distributed
Avatar for Paolo Fragomeni hij1nx
1
300

Other Decks in Technology

See All in Technology
キャディでのApache Iceberg, Trino採用事例　-Apache Iceberg and Trino Usecase in CADDi--
Avatar for recruiting@caddi.jp caddi_eng
0
170
2025/6/21 日本学術会議公開シンポジウム発表資料
Avatar for Keisuke Fujii keisuke198619
2
480
本当に使える？AutoUpgrade の新機能を実践検証してみた
Avatar for oracle4engineer oracle4engineer
PRO
1
120
知識を整理して未来を作る 〜SKDとAI協業への助走〜
Avatar for yyoosshh yosh1995
0
150
VISITS_AIIoTビジネス共創ラボ登壇資料.pdf
Avatar for AIxIoTビジネス共創ラボ iotcomjpadmin
0
150
Agentic DevOps時代の生存戦略
Avatar for KAMEGAWA Kazushi kkamegawa
0
990
[TechNight #90-1] 本当に使える？ ZDMの 新機能を実践検証してみた
Avatar for oracle4engineer oracle4engineer
PRO
3
140
Clineを含めたAIエージェントを 大規模組織に導入し、投資対効果を考える / Introducing AI agents into your organization
Avatar for Masato Ishigaki / 石垣雅人 i35_267
4
1.4k
強化されたAmazon Location Serviceによる新機能と開発者体験
Avatar for Yasunori Kirimoto dayjournal
2
150
OpenHands🤲にContributeしてみた
Avatar for kotauchisunsun kotauchisunsun
0
150
第9回情シス転職ミートアップ_テックタッチ株式会社
Avatar for forester3003 forester3003
0
150
PHP開発者のためのSOLID原則再入門 #phpcon / PHP Conference Japan 2025
Avatar for shogogg shogogg
1
320

Featured

See All Featured
Fireside Chat
Avatar for paigeccino paigeccino
37
3.5k
Principles of Awesome APIs and How to Build Them.
Avatar for Keavy McMinn keavy
126
17k
Building Better People: How to give real-time feedback that sticks.
Avatar for Will Jessup wjessup
367
19k
ピンチをチャンスに：未来をつくるプロダクトロードマップ #pmconf2020
Avatar for Aki / @LoveIdahoBurger aki_iinuma
124
52k
Optimising Largest Contentful Paint
Avatar for Harry Roberts csswizardry
37
3.3k
How to train your dragon (web standard)
Avatar for Monica Dinculescu notwaldorf
92
6.1k
A Modern Web Designer's Workflow
Avatar for Chris Coyier chriscoyier
693
190k
Building an army of robots
Avatar for Kyle Neath kneath
306
45k
KATA
Avatar for Megan Lloyd mclloyd
29
14k
How to Ace a Technical Interview
Avatar for Jacob Kaplan-Moss jacobian
277
23k
Statistics for Hackers
Avatar for Jake VanderPlas jakevdp
799
220k
Visualization
Avatar for Eitan Lees eitanlees
146
16k

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