[Cryptography] People vs AI

[efc at disroot.org]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025, iang via cryptography wrote:

> Carrot & stick works well with nation states. But for reasons, the nation
> states have trouble working with public keys. What does work is communities
> that have some inner strength. For an example of one that worked, look at
> CAcert, which these days is a shadow of its former self, but it did crack the
> problem of honesty versus lying, at Internet scale.

Maybe a more profitable way would be to try and come up with a better web of
trust? Is it really so difficult? Haven't there been advances in usability since
it was created?

Another question is how to distinguish the user of a device, from the identity
stored on the device. Imagine your key stored on your phone. But someone then
steals and breaks into your phone. That person can then communicate with others
as if he was you.

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