Nostr Web Client

Ring signatures would be one method.

In the DT case: produce a list of N npubs that my WoT can verify work in the Nixon administration, tell your tale, then sign it with a ring signature that proves you’re one of the N npubs without revealing which one. Obviously N needs to be sufficiently high to make you feel safe.

A more generic case: make a list of N accounts that are widely perceived as having high generic Trust Scores (eg GrapeRank or some other metric), then use a ring signature using that list.

Daniel Wigton 1mo ago

That works, but it isn't free. You are averaging the trust and burning a bit of everyone in the ring's anonymity. In the case of abuse you burn some amount of everyone's trust.

How you pick these high generic trust accounts? Are you choosing for a known audience?

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david 1mo ago

Those questions will be highly specific to each use case. WoT is one of those areas where there will be few if any perfect solutions, only tradeoffs. But in many cases — once again, highly dependent on the particulars of the use case — the tradeoffs will be worth making. To answer your question: the person crafting the message chooses the audience, depending on the message being sent.