Re: [GNU/consensus] [SH] Re: GNU Consensus Manifesto -- Comments

[Mikael Nordfeldth]

09.01.2013 18:43 skrev Michael Rogers:
> As I mentioned earlier, identity is handled differently in Briar than
> in most social networking systems. There isn't a one-to-one mapping
> between identities and people. Instead, people use nicknames with
> local scope to refer to their contacts. For example, I may call my
> mother "Mum", whereas her friend may call her "Jen" and use "Mum" to
> refer to her own mother.

Surely there must be an identity with which a user can recognize 
(verify) that whatever response is received does in fact come from the 
user. (kind of like GPG having a global scope with the public key 
fingerprints)

Or is the system truly global-ID-less in such a way that for every new 
contact, an entirely new identity is generated (only in a local scope as 
you mentioned)? Meaning it is up to the two people making a connection 
to avoid possible collisions, kind of like GPG without any of the 
web-of-trust properties.

If the latter is the case, I believe Briar to be very hard to implement 
in an "internet social" sense, though I definitely see lots of use for 
it in other areas.

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