CVS update: openprivacy/htdocs/notes

From: cvs@openprivacy.org
Date: Fri Feb 02 2001 - 15:20:08 PST

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    Date: Friday February 2, 19101 @ 15:20
    Author: fen
    CVSWEB Options: -------------------

    Main CVSWeb: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi

    View this module: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/notes

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    Update of /usr/local/cvs/public/openprivacy/htdocs/notes
    In directory giga:/home/fen/projects/openprivacy/htdocs/notes

    Modified Files:
            focus.txt
    Log Message:
    bit more focused...

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    File: openprivacy/htdocs/notes/focus.txt

    CVSWEB Options: -------------------

    CVSWeb: Annotate this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/notes/focus.txt?annotate=1.3

    CVSWeb: View this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/notes/focus.txt?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

    CVSWeb: Diff to previous version: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/notes/focus.txt.diff?r1=1.3&r2=1.2

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    Index: openprivacy/htdocs/notes/focus.txt
    diff -u openprivacy/htdocs/notes/focus.txt:1.2 openprivacy/htdocs/notes/focus.txt:1.3
    --- openprivacy/htdocs/notes/focus.txt:1.2 Fri Feb 2 14:49:07 2001
    +++ openprivacy/htdocs/notes/focus.txt Fri Feb 2 15:20:08 2001
    @@ -1,19 +1,15 @@
    -$Id: focus.txt,v 1.2 2001/02/02 22:49:07 fen Exp $
    +$Id: focus.txt,v 1.3 2001/02/02 23:20:08 fen Exp $
     
    -confidence in returned results
    +supporting infrastructure:
    + + distributed (ala P2P), censorship-resistant
    + + Freenet
    + + Free Haven
    + + Mojo Nation
     
     profile fragments Pi signed by Js (subset of user nym N)
      + protect user from triangulation
      + enable user to prove ownership of P{i-j} via J
     
    -access to profile segments enables
    - + infomediary agent data mining
    - + which may then provide reputation-based services
    -
    -each P2P agent may function both as a
    - + hunter, searching or mining for information of value
    - + gatherer, filtering streams of data for items of interest
    -
     concepts:
      + a nym Ji can state an Opinion about an object (often a URI)
      + an Opinion adds depth to Reputation of the object being referenced
    @@ -24,18 +20,22 @@
      + incrementally refine Reputation/Opinion accumulation into a Bias
      + support ability to use Bias to (pre-)calculate responses
      + support ability to edit one's own Bias or create a Bias
    + + can attach confidence quotient to returned results
     
    -supporting infrastructure:
    - + distributed (ala P2P), censorship-resistant
    - + Freenet
    - + Free Haven
    - + Mojo Nation
    +each RCE (essentially a P2P agent) may function both as a
    + + hunter, searching or mining for information of value
    + + gatherer, filtering streams of data for items of interest
    +
    +access to profile segments and reputation capital enables
    + + infomediary agent data mining
    + + which may then provide reputation-based or other services
     
     attack resistance:
    - + replay: duplicate data is GC'd
      + DOS: left to the supporting infrastructure
      + spoofing: impossible unless secret key is compromised
    - + shill:
    - + slander/false claims:
    + + replay: identical (duplicate) data is GC'd
    + + flooding: similar claims can be coalesced
    + + /shills/slander/false claims:
       + making unsubstantiated comments can damage the issuer's reputation
    - + anonymous attacks are likely to be ignored
    + + anonymous (made with little or no backing reputation) shills/floods
    + are likely to be ignored



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