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> Many people feel otherwise. They feel that the centralization degrades > security because it erects a single point to attack and introduces a > third-party into transactions that would otherwise only involve two. If A and B have already got a trust path, then sure it's only two. If not, then someone has to act as the TTP (trusted third party) that vouchsafe's A's identity to B and vice-versa. Fewer trust anchors is a priori easier to manage than more trust anchors. Zooko's quote was interesting, but I wasn't commenting on > I guess it depends on what you mean by "trust". And that in turn depends > on the problem domain. As always. Security is a risk management issue. /r$
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