[Cryptography] asymmetric attacks on crypto-protocols - the rough consensus attack

[ianG]

On 2/08/2015 16:20 pm, Tom Ritter wrote:
> On 1 August 2015 at 21:27, ianG <iang at iang.org> wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest a way to get around this?  I think this really puts a
>> marker on the map - you simply can't do a security/crypto protocol under
>> rough consensus in open committee, when there is an attacker out there
>> willing to put in the resources to stop it.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> My opinion is that the rough consensus can be counter-balanced by
> "running code".  If the original group moves forward, deploys, gets
> early adopters, shows it's working, and perhaps wonder-of-wonders gets
> it picked up by one of the big behemoths that could jump-start
> deployment (maybe Google, or Akamai, or CloudFlare) - well they can
> document as an informational document at least.  And you can
> interoperate with the folks who have deployed.


ftr, I read this post earlier, and it inspired me in my mind to copy it 
and think I'd thought of it myself...

iang