[7745] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: reflecting on PGP, keyservers, and the Web of Trust
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Tue Sep 5 16:18:53 2000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 23:14:06 -0400 (EDT)
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Ed Gerck writes:
> Even though the web-of-trust seems to be a pretty good part of PGP,
> IMO it is actually it's Achilles heel.
Nope. Usability is its Achilles heel. PGP needs to be wrapped in
something, and yet it's not really designed to be wrapped. Even if it
were, PGP, Inc. changed the interface! Doh! And then there's the
whole encryption method problem.
No, web-of-trust as a problem is way down there on the list.
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