Identity Based Consensus for Self-Governing Systems
| dc.contributor.author | Platt, Moritz | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-04T16:49:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-04T16:49:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-11-30 16:26 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The selection of members is a challenge in decentralised record-keeping systems. In ‘permissioned’ systems, this crucial task is performed by a central authority or consortium. In ‘permissionless’ systems, however, the selection process is not trivial and comes with risks. Malicious actors, in a privileged position, can tamper with data, threatening the integrity of the system as a whole. Permissionless membership selection protocols, popularised with the dissemination of distributed ledger technology, have the objective of limiting the influence of a single entity on the wider network.They do so by approximating a participant’s legitimacy, to participate in record maintenance, through external or internal factors. These approximations come with downsides, in terms of attackability, system performance, supported use-cases and resource requirements. In this poster, I propose a prototypical membership selection protocol that uses the measure of personhood as an approximation of legitimacy. Interpreting a decentralised system as a political system, I frame the membership selection problem as one of political representation. I propose a protocol that democratically attributes a personhood score to members, thus creating a self-governing public decentralised system.This work in progress lays out a roadmap for the formal evaluation of self-governing public decentralised systems and describes the anticipated challenges in their implementation. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Platt, Moritz (2020). Identity Based Consensus for Self-Governing Systems. Cranfield Online Research Data (CORD). Poster. https://doi.org/10.17862/cranfield.rd.13303103.v1 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.17862/cranfield.rd.13303103.v1 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/21408 | |
| dc.publisher | Cranfield University | |
| dc.rights | CC BY-NC 4.0 | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | 'DSDS20 Poster' | |
| dc.subject | 'DSDS20' | |
| dc.subject | 'Distributed Ledger Technology' | |
| dc.subject | 'Self-Governance' | |
| dc.subject | 'Consensus' | |
| dc.subject | 'Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified' | |
| dc.subject | 'Computer System Security' | |
| dc.title | Identity Based Consensus for Self-Governing Systems | |
| dc.type | Poster |
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