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Web of Trust vs other models
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- Subject: Web of Trust vs other models
- From: "marcus (m.d.) leech" <mleech@bnr.ca>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 09:48:07 -0500
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I was thinking last night that it would be interesting to run a simulation
of web of trust, using the following parameters:
There are a pool of 1 million keys. Each of those keys is signed by between
two and 5 other randomly chosen keys in the pool.
Each signature implies a trust relation between the key and the signer.
Given that, determine mean, min, and max path lengths for purposes of
"certification".
Has anyone done this experiment?
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