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RE: Verified Accounts - Reputation System

in #steem • 8 years ago

There is already crypto on the blockchain so why add extra redundancy. All GPG adds to steem is a web-of-trust that could easily be added by introducing 'whitelists' similar to BitShares. Essentially it works like this:

  • any account could be an authority
  • an authority can add any account to it's "VERIFIED BY ME" list
  • if you trust the authority, you can trust everyone in his VERIFIED BY ME list
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     8 years ago  

    Hold on, that is just making it complicated for no reason. I don't want to trust some authority and their decisions on who to trust.
    I am simply talking about verifying your identity and the contents of your messages by using PGP's sign features. Nothing more. By posting your public key on steemit\reddit\website and signing your messages\tweets\posts\instagrams, you would be verifying it was created by your accounts and your message was unchanged. This is simple and easy enough for regular people to do, without a bunch of requirements or software changes.
    Isn't that what the memo key was originally for anyway?

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     8 years ago  

    You don't need to trust any other authority ..
    you can get your own whitelist ..

    • adding someone to your whitelist is equivalent to signing someone else's public key in pgp/gpg
    • trusting someone else's whitelist is the same as trusting someone that has a signed key from a friend that you have signed as well.

    If you want to link people with a gpg key, then go for it. but using PGP ontop of steem only adds redundancy that could also be added to the protocol with whitelists.