SoK: The Ghost Trilemma. (arXiv:2308.02202v1 [cs.CR])

Trolls, bots, and sybils distort online discourse and compromise the security
of networked platforms. User identity is central to the vectors of attack and
manipulation employed in these contexts. However it has long seemed that, try
as it might, the security community has been unable to stem the rising tide of
such problems. We posit the Ghost Trilemma, that there are three key properties
of identity -- sentience, location, and uniqueness -- that cannot be
simultaneously verified in a fully-decentralized …

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