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Re: PGP: n degrees of separation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Broiles)
Thu Dec 21 16:29:47 2000
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:39:48 -0800
From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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In-Reply-To: <20001221083950.A28077@citusc.usc.edu>; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:39:50AM -0800
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:39:50AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Does anyone have any statistics on the average degree of separation
> between two arbitrary PGP keys in, say, the pgp.mit.edu keyserver - in
> other words, the average diameter of the PGP web of trust?
These URLs describing work done at AT&T/Bell Labs may be of interest,
though the results are somewhat dated -
http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.1996.02.01-1996.02.07/msg00313.html
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/pgpstat/
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