Maybe blocking that user that uploaded bad content so he doesn't get it in
return?
El 29/07/2013 03:50, "realcr" <[email protected]> escribió:

> I have to agree with most of ianG and James words.
> Note that your system is vulnerable to Byzantine attacks for example.
> However, I have the belief that trust could be made formal in some way, if
> done correctly. Maybe more work is needed.
> I'm not saying I know how to do it though :)
>
> @Liam Edwards-Playne: Don't give up as you read our critiques. Maybe they
> can help you improve your idea.
> I recommend you to read about some other attempts of other people.
> Some of them that I can remember right now are:
> EigenTrust : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EigenTrust
> P2PREP
> If you follow these articles you can find many more articles. If I
> remember correctly, some of these articles actually prove some ideas
> mathematically, which is really cool.
> Though they usually assume something more besides the generic symmetry
> between users. (For example: That some known set of peers are always
> trusted.)
>
> For me trust is connected with money or property in some way. It means to
> me that if I'm paying something, I know I get the goods that I wanted. (And
> if I don't, the other side looses about as much as I lose).
> Something like reputation in Ebay.
> In this context I want to ask another question. Given a known
> decentralized monitary solution (For example, bitcoin), do you have any
> idea about how to solve that trust problem?
> Naively speaking, If I want to create a file sharing program that allows
> to transfer files between users, and users actually pay in some way for the
> file transfer, How to make sure that clients in the network prefer to give
> good service, and not decide to cheat?
>
> Regards,
> real.
>
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:10 AM, ianG <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 20/01/13 09:40 AM, James A. Donald wrote:
>> > On 2013-01-16 10:17 AM, Liam Edwards-Playne wrote:
>> >> Good day to you all,
>> >>
>> >> I've recently devised a solution for decentralized P2P trust
>> >> networking which you might all be interested in. It relies on an
>> >> artificial reasoning suite called Subjective Logic to provide methods
>> >> for deducing transitive trust. I've written a short 2 page paper to
>> >> detail the protocol - http://4abf.net/static/2013/jan/trust4.pdf
>> >> I'll be happy to answer any questions and discuss any critiques.
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Liam (liamzebedee) Edwards-Playne
>> >>
>> >
>> > It is not obvious to me how this performs should Bob create a million
>> > sybils to say that Bob is good.
>> >
>> > The system is designed to support generic trust.   What are we
>> > trusting?  Are we trusting Bob to be truthful, trusting Bob to pay his
>> > debts, trusting Bob to wisely curate content?  Each of these is subject
>> > to subtly different attacks.
>> >
>> > Any trust scheme has to manage information about the probability of a
>> > probability, or rather the probability distribution of a probability
>> > distribution, abstractions that are hard to grasp, and I had a
>> > particularly hard time grasping them when they were not anchored to the
>> > probability of any particular event.
>>
>>
>> One thing that bedevils such systems is a weak definition (or a complete
>> confusion) as to what "trust" means:
>>
>>      A naive approach would be to retrieve trust as it is needed,
>>      receiving the latest trust information at the cost of inefficiency.
>>
>> Indeed, such makes no sense.  It is not possible to "retrieve trust" any
>> more than it is possible to download love, transmit units of fear, or
>> sell hunger.
>>
>> This assumption that "trust" can be unitised is what underpins most
>> systems -- they create single data units which are moved around.  This
>> is more because the designers are computer programmers, and to them,
>> everything is a datum.
>>
>> If one challenges that assumption, that "trust" cannot be unitised itno
>>   a tidy data structure, then we're back to the drawing board.
>>
>> As intimated above, and perhaps in that paper, we instead want
>> statements.   ”a node will provide the most correct responses”  But an
>> analysis of the statements as they are applied to multiple nodes also
>> reveals that we need a much more sophisticated structure about those
>> statements.  The statements can't be totally free.
>>
>> Here's a simple test:  what happens if the statement proves wrong?  The
>> answer to that will define the system far more than how the units are
>> moved around.
>>
>> iang
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