Difficulty of fixing reconciliation

[Peter Lebbing]

On 14/08/2019 12:09, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> Indeed, but that condition is fundamentally incompatible with
> decentralised reconciliation - because deletion without permissions
> management is an open door, and permissions have to be enforced by an
> authority.

Hmmmm.... the authority could just be the primary key that the
third-party signatures are over. I'm not talking about the current SKS
keyserver network, but some still-to-be-created federated synchronizing
service.

That authority could also authorize no longer sharing a particular third
party signature, I think. It might still circulate in the federated
network, but any time it rears its head again it could get ignored by
the revoked authorization (or more: authorization to revoke). "Ignoring"
might just mean not offering it to clients even though it's still part
of the federation for technical purposes.

There's a lot of chance for misunderstandings here. I started writing
something less ambiguous and stopped due to the amount of work :-).

Cheers,

Peter.

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