### Private Time
###### Putting the `t` back in *security*!

This post will assess the judicial application of **time** when employed as a critical variable in modern cryptography. Perhaps one of the most taboo words and suggestions in the realm of InfoSec, "time" is enjoying a bit of newfound real-world sex appeal due in large part to the widespread adoption and comprehension of distributed block chains used as general-purpose time-definite public ledgers.

Think more general and abstract manifestations of the Bitcoin block chain which transcend finance and effectively serve many innovative purposes. Such purposes—until just recently—were often a thorough pain in the ass to design and spin up without causing implosion of your personal computer.

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### Quiet Time
###### There's `merit` in discretion.

Are you familiar with PGP's *Web of Trust*? Either way, I've been kicking around this idea for a while now that I think would, if nothing else, complement the Web of Trust pretty nicely in more involved network-related use cases. I propose a **Web of Merit**, employed either in isolation or alongside some such trust-centric facility like PGP's elegant social graph mentioned earlier in this paragraph, in order to simultaneously keep tabs on the good health of your contacts' accounts while not losing sight of how those contacts' `merit` and actions should reflect on their trustworthiness with respect to cooperative network activities as well as real social implications of healthy or ill behavior as observed.

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