Web of trust
Decentralised trust model in which people vouch for each other's keys instead of relying on a central authority; put forward by Phil Zimmermann for PGP in 1992.
proposed by
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Phil Zimmermann
person
b. 1954
[src]
in the manual for PGP 2.0, 1992
built upon by
- Rebooting the Web of Trust project 2015–2023 [src]