Re: A new look at PGP (WAS: Re: OpenPGP (GnuPG) vs. S/MIME)

[Harry Hoffman <hhoffman () ip-solutions net>]

One of Kurt's suppositions was that web of trusts in PGP are difficult because
there in no centralizing authority in which to place the initial trust (or
something similar to that idea) :-)
My thought was that a service, along the lines of Friendster or Orkut, might
more easily permit trust relationships to form and allow a client to assign a
level of trust to one of their "friends" (much the way these services currently
work).
The reason I thought it may work is that there were times when going to
conferences (and such) the people who knew (and had a certain trust level) each
other would sign one anothers keys.

OK, now it's dead ;-)  (I still think it has a chance of working though)

--Harry


Quoting Byron Copeland <nodialtone () comcast net>:

*> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 22:19, Harry Hoffman wrote:
*> > That brings up an interesting question. Does anyone out there think that
*> PGP
*> > "web of trusts" would be easier if encorporated into something like
*> "Orkut" or
*> > "Friendster"?
*> >
*> 
*> wtf?
*> 
*> > *>
*> > *> This thread is dead. It was dead when it was started. It was dead 3
*> years
*> > *> ago.
*> > *>
*> 
*> dang.  Lets bring it to life again.
*> 
*> 
*> 


-- 
Harry Hoffman
hhoffman () ip-solutions net
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