On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Lucky Green wrote:
The Web of Trust (WoT) concept provides for marginal security benefits and then only in a very narrow set of circumstances that are unlikely to hold true for the larger community of Tor node operators. Starting with the second point, the WoT concept presumes that trust between its members precedes the codification of that trust into attestations attached to digital certificates. In other words, the WoT might provide (but likely will not) security benefits to a group of users that have pre-existing social relations and trust. For example, members of a human rights group that have personally known each other, or at least the bulk of each other, for years.
Understood. I thik this is worth implementing as a feature - a handful of known nodes begets a handful^2 of trusted nodes, and pretty soon a relatively small organization has a relatively large trusted network.
It may not be suitable for you, or for me, but it would be suitable for some...
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