- From: Adrian Gschwend <ktk@netlabs.org>
- Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:37:10 +0100
- To: public-webid@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04.03.12 18:04, elf Pavlik wrote: > How can a web-of-trust be useful, if all the trust is based on a > trust system that has been shown to be untrustworthy for more than > a decade?" Your friend misses the point of a web of trust: - -- Its decentralized trust model is an alternative to the centralized trust model of a public key infrastructure (PKI), which relies exclusively on a certificate authority (or a hierarchy of such). As with computer networks, there are many independent webs of trust, and any user (through their identity certificate) can be a part of, and a link between, multiple webs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust - -- So it is the opposite of a hierarchical CA system. It is up to each participant to decide how much trust he/she has with others. BTW about his article: Published on: Apr 04 2012 Interesting ;-) cu Adrian - -- Adrian Gschwend @ netlabs.org ktk [a t] netlabs.org - ------- Open Source Project http://www.netlabs.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9T4IYACgkQqpMUYrZbQBEb6gCeLHy1Zx0pyK46swAiYL+eYBp3 aIwAnAoJridgbquMji/TuzQIiZwmy5Ti =0X7/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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