(3) Demo: Trust (vouch for, identify) Tom
Connect with a person.
(3.1) Demo: Trust recognized
The Nerd'ster
found and processed a portable, cryptographically signed statement by Burner on the Internet referencing Tom's public key.
proceeded to locate and process Tom's statements.
continued to discover and process the rest of the network's statements.
Reference "In depth" screens
Explain how portable, signed statements are found and verified
Cryptography - fundamental for this paradigm - works, cryptic, public/public pairs (can't recover or replace a private key.)
Identity - Bart@nerdster.org, Bart@discord.com, Bart@craigslist.org, Bart@vrbo.com ... Bart!Â
Delegates - Use any service without accounts. Give the service a key pair to use, and tell everyone that its yours.
--Show demo features on the Nerd'ster
Use menu: Settings => Show => JSON, keys, statements
Click on keys
Click on statements
Use "Interpret" toggle on both keys and statements
Right click on people's names or their delegate keys to show published statements
--Show demo features on the Phone app
Dive in to a particular like
These statements are not trusted because they're served by my domains; they're trusted because they're signed by people's cryptographic keys.
The content we found is signed by folks' own crypto keys. They chose to publish content for anyone to use and trust instead of authenticating with a particular service account and to keep their content locked in a silo (Amazon reviews, Yelp ratings, Airbnb ratings, tweets (choice of 4 different ones), Faceposts, etc...)
publicly available and signed for verification by anyone or any thing
portable (you don't have to trust one-of-us.net or nerdster.org; rather, you trust a chain of cryptographic signatures starting from you), and so services can replicate this data and serve it themselves.
heterogeneous (stock public key, common JSON format, ...)
nerdster.org and ONE-OF-US.NET do not have any special access to each other.
Tom and the demo Burner phone have no Nerd'ster connection or relationship. But the phone can see its relationship through a different signed, published statement. In case The phone chose to "Nerdster follow" Tom, then that relationship could be recognized by other services, too.
Burner doesn't have any relationship with Nerd'ster. It can see content it trusts just by telling it who it is (identifying itself with his public key).