If memory serves me right, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I am looking for a way to count the "degrees of separation" or shortest > path between public PGP keys. > > Any tools or libraries I should look at?
Not sure how directly applicable this is, but it sounds like you want something like this: http://pgp.cs.uu.nl/ > I am researching to see if it would be useful for allowing mail (default > deny stance / guilty-until-proven-innocent since most mail is unwanted) if > the sender's signature is within 2 or 3 hops from recipient. Or scoring > the mail up based on the lowest hops. > > Anyone know of anything like this? Any research? How far can this scale? > > (I now see a spamassassin plugin but doesn't score based on hops away.) Interesting idea. For me personally, this probably would not work because the vast majority of people I correspond with don't PGP-sign their email (or, for that matter, even have PGP keys). Bruce.
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