Web of trust and keyservers can be an undesirable feature among that community of users that PGP was supposed to serve: people in authoritarian states. If a com

Web of trust and keyservers can be an undesirable feature among that community of users that PGP was supposed to serve: people in authoritarian states. If a community of those people sign each others’ keys, it only takes one person uploading his keyring to a public keyserver, for that authoritarian state to have a convenient map of the social network of its citizens trying to subvert its surveillance and their foreign contacts.