Benefits of Web of Trust
Below are some benefits of the Web of trust
- Easy to Use: To join a Web of Trust, you need to generate and share your public keys. This is the only problem to deal with, as various software solutions, now exist for automating certificate creation, signature, and verification.
- Enforces Trust in Relationships: You can develop trust with people based on your needs. You can also cancel or adjust others’ trust levels at any moment.
- Distributed and Decentralized: The web of trust employs a distributed and decentralized network that is trusted. The approach is based on network users’ ratings, rather than a centralized authority.
What is Web of Trust?
Web of Trust in cryptography is a concept used in PGP, GnuPG, and other OpenPGP-compatible systems to verify the legitimacy of a public key and its owner. Its decentralized trust model is an alternative to the centralized trust model of a public key infrastructure (PKI), which is entirely dependent on a certificate authority (or a hierarchy of them). As with computer networks, there are several separate webs of trust, and any user (via their public key certificate) can participate in and connect multiple webs.