Why “PGP” is being discussed
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It has been for a maybe 10 years. I take the recent announcements as "proof" the Linux Foundation does not care about hiding that fact. It is too bad, some distros are trying to…
by jmclnx · Oct 21, 2026
PGP is indeed a problematic implementation, but it's just one of many possible ways to do a web of trust. It's not 1991 anymore. How many more of these failures must we endure b…
by __MatrixMan__ · Oct 21, 2026
> Even before the PGP web-of-trust broke down several years ago I'm not sure I'm familiar with what moment this is referring to; can you elaborate?
by perryprog · Oct 20, 2026
What are you merging on - a shared PGP key or a crypto address or every hit it's own node? And what happens if different people happen to use the same nickname?
by CreepyHunterX · Oct 20, 2026
Web-of-trust doesn't work. Even before the PGP web-of-trust broke down several years ago, analyses of how the web-of-trust actually ended up working out showed that it basically…
by jcranmer · Oct 20, 2026
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