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noosphrtoday at 3:07 AM3 repliesview on HN

Every day the gpg web of trust looks better. If only we didn't spend the last 20 years trying as hard as possible to do anything but allow user side encryption and signing.


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pjc50today at 12:33 PM

It's allowed perfectly fine, it's just that key management is a massive hassle for nontechnical users. Debian use it for authenticating developers.

literalAardvarktoday at 3:15 AM

Nothing really stopping an agent from getting a key

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mistrial9today at 2:30 PM

Isn't true that a collection of truly difficult behavior was also attracted to the original efforts, and within a few years there was intractable corruption in that, but it was difficult to detect as a new entrant?

real info welcome as I really do not claim to know it