Re: WoT plugin

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 17:36, Julien Cornuwel wrote:
> Evan Daniel a écrit :
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Julien Cornuwel <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > 
> >>  - The user sets a trust value for an identity. Get all identities that
> >>  are trusted by this one and re-calculate*.
> >>  - We fetched a new trustlist (from a trusted identity), re-calculate*
> >>  all listed identities.
> >>
> >>  * Get all the identities that trust a particular identity and calculate
> >>  the resulting trust.
> > 
> > How do you plan to do trust calculation?
> 
> As I didn't wrote a single line on it, I'm open to suggestions. The idea
> is to have a reference implementation of the WoT in an official plugin
> that can be reviewed by core devs and corrected in case a flaw is
> discovered in it.

And such review isn't going to happen until we have some code to look at!
> 
> > The FMS system, as proposed on the freesite when I last looked at it,
> > looks overly simplistic to me.
> > 
> > If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading about the Advogato
> > trust metric; it's specifically intended to be resistant to attacks,
> > including spamming.
> > 
> > http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html  (simple version)
> > http://www.levien.com/thesis/compact.pdf   (the thesis it's based on)
> 
> Thanks, I'll read that (the simple one ;) )
> 
> > Evan Daniel

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