Plan B - Who carries the torch?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Jan 5 15:38:11 CET 2021


On Tue,  5 Jan 2021 07:27, Jean-David Beyer said:

> Building a web of trust is so hopeless, from my point of view, that I
> have abandonned gnupg. I have made keys for myself, obtained enigmail

Virtually nobody uses the WoT.  What people use are direct key
signatures.  That is you verify a key's owner and then sign that key.
Usually not even exportable.  Verification is often done by trust on
first use.  And that is okay for the majority of use cases.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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