Frequently Asked Questions on Web of Trust
What is the purpose of a web of trust?
A Web of Trust is an identity management system that provides each user with a single, permanent digital decentralized identification (DID). All of the sites in the system recognize this credential because it has been verified and scored by trusted peers.
How to trust in PGP achieved using a web of trust model?
PGP uses the web of trust approach to establish trust. The basic concept of this paradigm is to accept a PGP user’s public key if it has been signed by one or more other trustworthy PGP users.
Is the web of trust free?
Web of Trust relies on millions of users worldwide to assess website reputations and share them with others.
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.