Web of Trust (a revolution)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Friends, Inspired by the recent problems with checksums for various installation files of Fedora 10, may I be allowed to say, that I think that broader adoption of OpenPGP standard (gpg) among Fedora (and Free Software) developers and users could be a desirable and advertising-worth goal. It could be a Strategy. Let me explain. (1) Web of trust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust) is in the spirit of Free Software, especially of that developed in the "bazaar" model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar). By making the concept of web of trust familiar to people I believe we also make the concept of Free Software more familiar to them. (2) Web of trust is also much more human than X.509. Since it is more human to trust someone because he is trusted by your friend, than to trust someone because a BigCompany issued a certificate for him. It is also easier to use, more flexible and much more fun! (3) That would increase safety. Friends I think we should act now, I think we should propagate Web of Trust to people before all those BigCompanies sell them X.509s! Let's take the pole position this time! With patents we have failed in a number countries, but this battle we can win! I think that these days we should advertise GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org/) and Web of Trust concept not less than the sole concept of Free Software. (By the way GnuPG is both free software and GNU.) I think we should act NOW!! *** You might want to talk to 5 of your friends who are not using OpenPGP yet. You might want to discuss this topic in other free software communities that you are a member of. *** STF ======================================================================= http://eisenbits.homelinux.net/~stf/ OpenPGP: 9D25 3D89 75F1 DF1D F434 25D7 E87F A1B9 B80F 8062 =======================================================================