On 13/08/2015 16:10, Dave Crocker wrote:
On 8/13/2015 7:48 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote:
We have a social responsibility to design an internet that
...
does not
provide an impregnable conduit for the use of people that seek to
harm us.
Stuart,
When a goal is specified, it permeates the work. The goal therefore
needs to have a practical basis for achievement, rather than merely
capturing a lofty and idealistic wish. Otherwise, it winds up serving
as a distraction at best; at worst, it destroys efficacy.
In the current case, there is no line of technical effort that has been
put forward, which has any credible support from the knowledgeable
technical community, that supports the above goal without thoroughly
undermining the other essential goals.
To the extent that you know of a practical line of design effort that
can satisfy the above goal, without also creating the basic problems
that have been documented, please describe it.
d/
Dave
Many of the interesting cases can be addressed by some mixture of
extreme key fragmentation with escrow fragmented across a set
of organizations that are both unable and unlikely to collude, but
would co-operate with an appropriate third party if presented with
the appropriate justification.
Escrowed fragments would need to distributed across organizations
with no commonality of political or economic influence, but with
a common moral and ethical standing.
The absence of technical sophistication by many wrong doers would
mean that at least their communications would be addressable, which
would at least be a step in the right direction.
-Stewart