{"id":369,"date":"2013-04-20T11:21:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T11:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2013-04-20T11:21:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T11:21:59","slug":"trust-without-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Trust without Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most work on the notion of <em>trust<\/em> online has been about <em>identity<\/em> verification. In order to do a transaction with my online banking system, I have to verify to that system who I am (and vice versa, just about). <\/p>\n<p>This is not the only trust model out there in the bricks-and-mortar world. Another model is that of a <em>security deposit<\/em>. If I, for example, hire a bicycle, then I lend the company something of value to me (e.g. a sum of money, a key) that I get back when I return the bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>Could this be implemented online in some way for some applications? Are there any other ways of splitting apart the usually-conflated concepts of trust and identity-verification?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most work on the notion of trust online has been about identity verification. In order to do a transaction with my online banking system, I have to verify to that system who I am (and vice versa, just about). This is not the only trust model out there in the bricks-and-mortar world. Another model is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}