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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Wednesday, March 24, 2004 6:27:16 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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-The PGP/GPG
concept of you
signing everyone
's key you know, and they sign everyone's key They know and so on, so eventually you should be able
to tell if someone is trustworthy by the "
web of trust" which
is created
.
+The WebOfTrust refers to the
concept of users
signing each others
' [PGP]/[GPG] keys (particularly at a KeySigningParty)
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/]
.
-See Also
[GPG/PGPNotes] and
WhySignEmail
+See also:
+*
[GPG/PGPNotes]
+*
WhySignEmail
