- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:30:37 -0400
- To: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>, Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 21:11 +0200, Henry Story wrote: > > https://medium.com/@bblfish/what-are-the-failings-of-pgp-web-of-trust > -958e1f62e5b7 > Thanks for sharing that here! i don't know that pgp failed - that is, whether it achieved the original goals of its designers. Neither do i think not being supported in MacMail is likely to be relevant, since Apple has a small market share in the world. However, you're right that it's hard to use. In particular it requires vastly more effort for most people than any perceived benefit, and that's i think its real adoption limit. If i receive an email message, most of the time i know who it is; if not, it's probably spam unless they introduce themselves as a prince in Nigeria or something :) Verifiable Credentials are solving a different problem, much more widely applicable. People _are_ willing to go to more trouble to identify themselves in order to get a driving license or download a college coursebook that's required reading or rent an apartment. When it comes down to logging in to a forum or to buying a pair of socks, if there's somewhere easier they may go elsewhere. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C, http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/ XSLT/XQuery/Web/Text Processing work and consulting.
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