Alex Rice wrote: > > On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 03:20 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> In the absence of any objective criteria, I may call the certificate >> program >> "Friends of Fourth World", and limit it to people I know personally >> (literally friends). Since I know most of the folks likely to add >> lots of >> entries into RevNet's index, today it's not much of an issue. But >> down the >> road, as Rev's audience grows, I'd like to find some means of verifying >> "trustworthiness" but without risking offending anyone. >> >> Any suggestions? > > It occurs to me that the "web of trust" concept in public-key > cryptography, like PGP, would be appropriate in this situation. You > don't know person X, but a friend of a friend of a "Friends of Fourth > World" may be able to vouch for person X. > > Maybe you can implement something like that in Revnet. Maybe something > with MD5 or the other built-in Rev tools > > A google search for "web of trust" +PGP has lots of hits.
Thanks to the engine's built-in md5 support, crsafting a scheme isn't the hard part. The hard part is deciding who gets a certificate and who doesn't.... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution