Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Loic Dachary <l...@dachary.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Note, however, that I do not claim that it is a silver bullet. Merely
>> that it lies between a completely open DHT ring and a completely closed
>> DHT ring where access is controlled by a central authority. It is good
>> enough to ensure Debian packages security. Would it be good enough for a
>> limited group of seeks nodes ?
>>     
>
> Nothing blocks you to add a ranking scheme for each seeks nodes/operators
> based on the number of OpenPGP signatures and their respective trust level.
>
> All the trust-ranking models already developed like advogato to all the
> graph-based algorithms could be applied. A numerical trust rank can be even
> calculated to valid the trustworthiness of a key or a set of signed seeks 
> nodes.
>
> For more information:
>
> http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cse400/CSE400_2005_2006/Margolis/paper.pdf
> http://pgp.cs.uu.nl/plot/ (can be used as a data source to validate the trust 
> of
>  a node operator)
>
> Hope this helps,
>   
It does, thanks.
> adulau
>
> PS: Do you have a shared collaborative space for your ideas or discussions?
>
>   
I bootstraped this page :
http://www.seeks-project.info/wiki/index.php/Security in an attempt to
organize my thoughts. I'm afraid it is more a reflection of my confusion
on the topic than a useful working document at this stage ;-)

I added your comment to
http://www.seeks-project.info/wiki/index.php/Security#Trust_ring

Cheers

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