playing with cryptography...

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Sat May 3 09:34:02 CEST 2008


On Fri,  2 May 2008 23:55, bill.royds at Royds.net said:

>  The PGP (GPG) model is that one only trusts certificate that come
> from someone you already trust or from someone that is trusted by
> someone who you trust etc. There is no implicit trust so it takes more

As usual I have to mention that what you mean is the Web of Trust (WoT)
as used by default in PGP and GPG.  In contrast to X.509, OpenPGP allows
the use of any kind of trust model with its framework.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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