Web of trust

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Web of trust (sometimes PGP Web of Trust) is a highly technical method of sharing identities that you trust or distrust, with your friends or strangers, in a decentralized way without requiring a centralized authority.

Features:

• a ranking can be assigned to convey different levels of trust or distrust.

Longer description:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

Technical descriptions:

• PGP Web of Trust - Core Concepts
• 2015 WebOfTrustInfo/rwot1-sf/ - /topics-and-advance-readings/PGP Paradigm

Confused With

• https://www.weboftrust.info/ — is about the Rebooting Web of Trust series of conferences, not a description of any technology.

See Also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
• Rebooting Web of Trust
• Self Sovereign Identity
  • Criticism: 2022-06-10 Is "acceptably non-dystopian" self-sovereign identity even possible?