K.S.Sreeram wrote:
Hi All
As I had mentioned in my earlier post, I'm working on a decentralized
communication system, where every user is identified by his RSA key. A
DHT is used to map the user's public key to his network location (ip
address). A user's contact list basically is just a list of public keys.
[snip]
One of the biggest stumbling blocks that will hinder mass adoption of
this product is the fact that users need to manually exchange their
public keys (e.g thru email), before they can communicate with each other.
The last time I tried Groove (back in the 1.0 days), it did initial
introductions via email and it seemed fine to me. Maybe it's helpful
here to distinguish initial introduction and transitive introductions:
only one email message should be required to bring a new user into the
network; after that users can introduce each other over the P2P network
itself.
Directories (e.g. key servers) have obvious privacy problems; I prefer
the object-capability style where it is impossible to know that a user
exists unless you have been specifically introduced. (Of course in any
social network you will have the Marc Canters who want to crawl the
whole thing, but oh well.)
Wes Felter - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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