Brad Ideas - anonymity en Unique Pseudonyms: QID <p>I wrote
recently about the <a href="/paradox-identity-
management">paradox of identity management</a> and how the
easier it is to offer information, the more often it will be
exchanged.</p> <p>To address some of these issues, let me
propose something different: The creation of an infrastructure
that allows people to generate secure (effectively anonymous)
pseudonyms in a manner that each person can have at most one
such ID. (There would be various classes of these IDs, so people
could have many IDs, but only one of each class.) I&#8217;ll
call this a QID (the Q &#8220;standing&#8221; for
&#8220;unique.&#8221;)</p> <p>The value of a unique ID is strong
&#8212; it allows one to associate a reputation with the ID.
Because you can only get one QID, you are motivated to carefully
protect the reputation associated with it, just as you are
motivated to protect the reputation on your &#8220;real&#8221;
identity. With most anonymous systems, if you develop a negative