User: gmahoney

Re:trust in open p2p communities

On: Ask Security/Cryptography Expert Paul Kocher

Doucer (Sybil Attack,http://research.microsoft.com/sn/Farsite/IP TPS2002.pdf) claims this is an irreducable aspect of trust -- that trust requires a logically centralized authority. The p-grid folks get around this by using a theoretical p2p reputation system -- see http://www.p-grid.org/Papers/CIKM2001.pdf