From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: openprivacy/htdocs/notes
Date: Tuesday February 27, 19101 @ 23:18
Author: fen
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- <!-- $Id: whitepaper.shtml,v 1.29 2001/02/28 07:01:11 fen Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: whitepaper.shtml,v 1.30 2001/02/28 07:18:01 fen Exp $ -->
<h1>OpenPrivacy - Building a Better Internet</h1>
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<blockquote>
<h3>Definitions</h3>
<ul>
- <li><b>Reference:</b>
- A pointer to an entity (generally a URI, often a URL). Examples
- include a physical or virtual object, place, person, pseudonym,
- web page or site, opinion, reputation, bias, profile, and
- reputation calculation engine.
- </li>
- <p>
- <li><b>Nym:</b>
- Short for "pseudonym," a nym is a fictitious name that can refer
- to an entity without using any of its directly identifiable
- characteristics, such as name, location, etc. OpenPrivacy uses
- public-key pairs to represent a nym, with the owner having sole
- access to the private part and the public part being published
- to at least one external party. A long-lived nym is useful in
- that it allows for trust (or "reputation") to accumulate over
- time and usage. Often, we refer to the public key as the "nym,"
- as it is how the entity is know in the outside world.
+ <li><b>Reference:</b> A pointer to an entity (generally a URI, often
+ a URL). Examples include a physical or virtual object, place,
+ person, pseudonym, web page or site, opinion, reputation, bias,
+ profile, and reputation calculation engine.
</li>
+ <p>
+ <li><b>Nym:</b> Short for "pseudonym," a nym is a fictitious name
+ that can refer to an entity without using any of its directly
+ identifiable characteristics, such as name, location, etc.
+ OpenPrivacy uses public-key pairs to represent a nym, with the
+ owner having sole access to the private part and the public part
+ being published to at least one external party. A long-lived nym
+ is useful in that it allows for trust (or "reputation") to
+ accumulate over time and usage. Often, we refer to the public key
+ as the "nym," as it is how the entity is know in the outside
+ world.
+ </li>
</p>
<p>
- <li><b>Principal:</b>
- An identifiable, pseudonymous, or anonymous entity. A principal
- can be uniquely referenced by its public key. Any static entity
- that can be referenced can in theory be a principal, the only
- requirement being that it can store a private key and perform
- signature operations.
+ <li><b>Principal:</b> An identifiable, pseudonymous, or anonymous
+ entity. A principal can be uniquely referenced by its public key.
+ Any static entity that can be referenced can in theory be a
+ principal, the only requirement being that it can store a private
+ key and perform signature operations.
</li>
</p>
<p>
- <li><b>Opinion:</b>
-
- A unique description of something (pointed to by a reference).
- Uniqueness is satisfied by attaching a hash, generally created
- from the pricipal's signature, to the opinion such that no two
- opinions are exactly the same. An opinion may be clearly
- subjective (as in "openssl is a good cryptography package") or
- appear as a statement (as in "I live in San Francisco," where
- the reference is "San Francisco" and the description is "where I
- live").
+ <li><b>Opinion:</b> A unique description of something (pointed to by
+ a reference). Uniqueness is satisfied by attaching a hash,
+ generally created from the pricipal's signature, to the opinion
+ such that no two opinions are exactly the same. An opinion may be
+ clearly subjective (as in "openssl is a good cryptography
+ package") or appear as a statement (as in "I live in San
+ Francisco," where the reference is "San Francisco" and the
+ description is "where I live").
</li>
</p>
<p>
- <li><b>Reputation:</b>
- A value that represents the collective opinion of some
- reference. A Reputation is really just another name for an
- Opinion, as it is the calculated opinion of the reference by the
- reputation calculation engine. Reputations are ephemeral, and
- the weight applied to an Opinion representing the reputation of
- some reference is subjectively applied by the end user (person
- or program) that requests it.
+ <li><b>Reputation:</b> A value that represents the collective
+ opinion of some reference. A reputation is really just another
+ name for an Opinion, as it is the calculated opinion of a
+ Reference by the issuing Reputation Calculation Engine.
+ Reputations are ephemeral, and the weight applied to an Opinion
+ representing the reputation of some Reference is subjectively
+ applied by the end user (person or program) that requests it. As
+ Principals add their Opinion to a Reference, it accrues (positive
+ or negative) <i>reputation capital</i>.
</li>
</p>
<p>
- <li><b>Bias:</b>
- While reputations generally reflect the sum of many opinions of
- a single reference, a bias is an accumulation of opinions that
- represent the views of a single principal. Biases may be
- divided by area or type of reference (such as groups of
+ <li><b>Bias:</b> While reputations generally reflect the sum of many
+ opinions of a single reference, a bias is an accumulation of
+ opinions that represent the views of a single principal. Biases
+ may be divided by area or type of reference (such as groups of
political or demographically descriptive opinions). A RCE uses
one or more Bias collections in the couse of its calculations.
</li>
</p>
<p>
- <li><b>Offer Template:</b>
- A set of seemingly disparate opinions can be grouped together
- (in a bias-like structure) for the purpose of finding
- best matches in a universe of unconnected data. A reputation
- service that receives an offer template may advertise prizes for
- parent nyms that can validate ownership of a subset of the
- template.
+ <li><b>Offer Template:</b> A set of seemingly disparate opinions can
+ be grouped together (in a bias-like structure) for the purpose of
+ finding best matches in a universe of unconnected data. A
+ reputation service that receives an offer template may advertise
+ prizes for parent nyms that can validate ownership of a subset of
+ the template.
</li>
</p>
<p>
- <li><b>Profile:</b>
- A collection of pseudonymous opinions (also in a bias-like
- structure) that an entity claims that it can prove belong to a
- single (parent) entity. (The proof itself is called
+ <li><b>Profile:</b> A collection of pseudonymous opinions (also in a
+ bias-like structure) that an entity claims that it can prove
+ belong to a single (parent) entity. (The proof itself is called
<i>validation</i>.)
- </ul>
+ </li>
+ </p>
+ </ul>
<h3>Bibliography</h3>
<dl>
<dt><a name="anon">[anon]</a> The Anonymizer
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