Agreed. Somehow I feel we need to end up on reputation-based nodes of trust that do act as proxies into real-world trust. It must not be like PGP is now, but

Agreed. Somehow I feel we need to end up on reputation-based nodes of trust that do act as proxies into real-world trust. It must not be like PGP is now, but it does need to be distributed and based on local trust.