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Whence this idea that Web of Trust is an unsolved useless design that requires central certificate authorities? The fact is that even the “canonical” CA’s can’
by binary132 1y ago
Whence this idea that Web of Trust is an unsolved useless design that requires central certificate authorities?
The fact is that even the “canonical” CA’s can’t be automatically trusted, but here we are. CA is just one shitty implementation of WoT that has been near-universally imposed on us and most people simply accept as a necessity of life, but it isn’t necessarily the only way. It’s just how it is right now.
- ivan_gammel 1y agoWeb of Trust is highly theoretical concept, which is unlikely to scale well for millions of people. It's a technical solution to a people problem and we barely solved this people problem already (to a few nines, but not absolutely) - through a sophisticated centralization.