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Re: [openpgp] OpenPGP private certification

Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> Fri, 10 April 2015 14:06 UTC

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On Wed,  8 Apr 2015 16:15, phill@hallambaker.com said:

> Personally, I believe that owning your personal DNS name is as
> important for security as having a keypair. I have a huge part of my

Although I agree with you, it will not work for the billion users we are
aiming for.

> We do need trust hierarchies for key management. But each individual
> should be the root of their personal hierarchy.

GNUnet's GNS is what you want.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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