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| Newer page: | version 12 | Last edited on Sunday, February 6, 2005 7:13:55 pm | by MattBrown | Revert |
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-The WebOfTrust refers to the concept of users signing each others' [PGP]/[GPG] PublicKey~s to build a network, or web, of mutual trust. This is in sharp contrast to [X509], which assumes a strictly hierarchical chain of authority. There are several ongoing studies into the quality of the WebOfTrust concept, such as [http://dtype.org/keyanalyze/].
+The WebOfTrust refers to the concept of users signing each others' [PGP]/[GPG] PublicKey~s to build a network, or web, of mutual trust. This network allows you to determine KeyValidity for keys that you have not directly signed.
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This is in sharp contrast to [X509], which assumes a strictly hierarchical chain of authority. There are several ongoing studies into the quality of the WebOfTrust concept, such as [http://dtype.org/keyanalyze/].
See also:
* [OpenPGPConcepts]
* [GPG/PGPNotes]
