On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 09:56:54PM -0800, Ray Dillinger <[email protected]> wrote a message of 21 lines which said:
> IMO the PGP web of trust is a failed idea. Trust is not and never > was transitive. It is. It is just limited in its extent. I trust my friends (obviously). I trust (but less so), my friends' friends. I don't trust a lot my friends' friends' friends. So, the general mathematical concept of transitivity does not work well for network security (because it has an infinite extent) but some sort of weighted transitivity could work. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
