- From: Roman Evstifeev <someuniquename@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 20:57:58 +0400
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-rww <public-rww@w3.org>, public-webid <public-webid@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 3 April 2013 18:00, Roman Evstifeev <someuniquename@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Melvin Carvalho >> <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: >> > There is a concept that has become popular lately in cryto (particularly >> > crypto currencies) which is called proof of work. >> > >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system >> > >> > The principle behind it is that you can use cryptography to make your >> > public >> > key 'special' in some predefined way, in order to prove that it was a >> > very >> > hard key to create. >> > >> > These special keys are considered valuable (indeed in cryto currencies >> > you >> > can be rewarded financially for creating one) >> > >> > However the original idea of proof of work was an anti spam measure. >> > >> > I wonder if were start using proof of work public keys linked to >> > identity on >> > the web, what possible formats could we use ... perhaps 6-10 leading >> > 1's? >> >> What for? What is the usecase? > > > It's like passing a captcha ... the person on the other side can have a > little more confidence that you are not a throw away identity. ie it is a > reputation vector. As far as i understand this - botmaster can pregenerate a lot of these "proofs" and link them to fake identities. So this is not useful at all.
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