Web of Trust (PGP)
Explore the web of trust model in distributed systems, focusing on how parties endorse each other's public keys through digital signatures without relying on centralized authorities. Understand the role of key signing parties and trust assignments, and how OpenPGP implements this decentralized approach for secure communication.
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When using a public-key infrastructure, one has to trust at least the root certificate authorities, which means the overall system is subject to some form of centralization. An alternative approach that aspired to solve the same problem in a more decentralized way is the web of trust. ...