TOFU - motivation

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Sat Apr 4 12:22:26 CEST 2015


On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:15, rjh at sixdemonbag.org said:

> The Web of Trust handles this by allowing people to decide their own
> trusted introducers.  But for system-wide TOFU, *every* application with
> write access to the DB is a trusted introducer.

I think there is a misunderstanding.  There won't be a system-wide TOFU.
The database storing the TOFU data will be local to the gnupg home
directory in the very same way as the ownertrust (trustdb.gpg) is.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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