[Cryptography] People vs AI

[John Levine]

It appears that iang via cryptography <iang at iang.org> said:
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>On 02/03/2025 02:00, Marek Tichy wrote:
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>> I'm also trying to find someone who would join me in pursuing the idea
>> of having global autonomous digital identities anchored in a web of
>> trust kept in a permissionless distributed ledger.
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>There's an enourmous class of security problems that can be solved by "if only we really knew who everyone was." Which derives from our anthropology as tribal animals, in
>which so many of our normal processes are protected by knowing everyone around us. It's inbuilt into our brains.
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>Unfortunately there isn't a really good technical solution for that at remote or Internet scale.

There's also the problem that the identity is usually associated with a device,
and the device might not always be in the posession of the person who the
identity is supposed to be. My phone is constantly asking me to prove that I am
me with a figerprint befure it uses stored identities, but that is a pain and
there are ways around it.

R's,
John