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But web of trust hasn't been very successful in practice. It's the usual reason quoted [citation needed] for the failure of PGP/GPG to become a mainstream succ
by FullyFunctional 6y ago
But web of trust hasn't been very successful in practice. It's the usual reason quoted [citation needed] for the failure of PGP/GPG to become a mainstream success.
Keybase's approach is more scalable, but it's still centralized.
- ryukafalz 6y agoPGP’s web of trust hasn’t been a mainstream success because (and I say this as a dedicated GPG user) the UX is awful. I don’t think it has anything to do with the web of trust though; in fact GPG doesn’t really expose the web of trust ideas much to the user. I can easily imagine a web of trust system with UX more similar to Facebook’s (and in fact this is basically what SSB’s clients are).