Torn money and the PGP web of trust

• Autores: Jeanette McLeod, Gregory Rose
• Localización: ;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE, ISSN 1044-6397, Vol. 23, Nº. 6, 1998, págs. 61-66
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Legitimacy and trust are perhaps the most complicated aspects of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). The trust model used by PGP assumed that trust starts with bilateral arragements (key singning) and grows organically to produce a decentralized "web" kown as the "Web of Trust". Descentralization is advantageous in that it foregoes the need for any central authority, yet the model as it stands does not scale well in a large, open community. Torn Money has been designed as an authetification service primarily to facilitate the introduction of new users to the Web of Trust and also as means of enchancing conectivity within the existing web.