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0 pointswoodruffw2y ago0 comments

PGP is more famous for "web of trust" topologies, not chains of trust.

For all of their nerd cred, key parties didn't accomplish very much (as evidenced by the fact that nothing on the Internet really broke when the WoT imploded a few years ago[1]). The "real" solution here is mostly cultural: treating third-party software like the risky thing it actually is, rather than a free source of pre-screened labor.

[1]: https://inversegravity.net/2019/web-of-trust-dead/

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weinzierl2y ago

Yes, but there was also little pressure to really build the WOT. People, like myself, did it because it was fun, but no one really relied on it. This could change, but it is still far from certain if it'd work given enough pressure.

progbits2y ago

Chain/web was typo, corrected, thanks.

I know of the key party issues. But there is some value to knowing how far removed from me and people I trust the project authors are.

woodruffwOP2y ago

> But there is some value to knowing how far removed from me and people I trust the project authors are

That's true!

msm_2y ago

Nowadays i achieve this with linkedin[1] connections. Less nerd cred, but achieves roughly the same purpose (most of the people I care about in my niche are at most a 3rd degree connection - a friend of a friend of a friend).

[1] formerly also twitter, at least partially.

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