I take it vampirechat is analogous with the old tradition of masonic society? then the mentors know who the protege is, but don't know each other's identity. Hmm. Interesting.
That's the general idea. I wonder how the masons handle it :) You need the two sponsors to give some guarantee people aren't just inventing virtualprotoge@hotmail.com addresses for themselves, but they wouldn't want to trust each other.
If the source code's available there's no guarantee it's actually compiled and running... unless the language were interpreted and the script directory world-readable, I suppose.
That's what I was thinking. If you have a publicly trusted server with the website having global read, and no write access (any changes handled by scripts). And, for instance, provide people with keys they can share with a third party two of which makes it create an account. And the data is all stored encrypted so no-one can read it.
You'd probably need the collusion of the server admins if only to guarantee no-one else has full access, and I don't think there's any way the admins could not be able to peek at the data. Maybe with multiple servers...
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Date: 2005-02-14 03:52 pm (UTC)That's the general idea. I wonder how the masons handle it :) You need the two sponsors to give some guarantee people aren't just inventing virtualprotoge@hotmail.com addresses for themselves, but they wouldn't want to trust each other.
That's what I was thinking. If you have a publicly trusted server with the website having global read, and no write access (any changes handled by scripts). And, for instance, provide people with keys they can share with a third party two of which makes it create an account. And the data is all stored encrypted so no-one can read it.
You'd probably need the collusion of the server admins if only to guarantee no-one else has full access, and I don't think there's any way the admins could not be able to peek at the data. Maybe with multiple servers...