- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:11:26 +0200
- To: Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
Hi all, I wrote a blog post entitled perhaps a little teasingly with the title of this thread. This followed a longer entry on Digital Sovereignty I wrote, where I get into the concept of an institutional Web of Trust. This lead Prof Bryan Ford in the distributed/decentralised systems group at EPFL in Lausanne to ask why that Web of Trust would be more successful and avoid the problems of the PGP one. So I had to look into what the exact problems with the PGP web of trust was. But as certain obvious limitations were clear from reading the PGP spec and as I thought it would be unjust to tie them to such accidental errors I imagined what would happen if they evolved to using the W3C Verifiable Claims standards. https://medium.com/@bblfish/what-are-the-failings-of-pgp-web-of-trust-958e1f62e5b7 Please let me know if I have misunderstood something. I am covering quite a lot of ground here. Feedback very much welcome :-) Henry Story http://co-operating.systems/
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