Re: [openpgp] Manifesto - who is the new OpenPGP for?

Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> Thu, 26 March 2015 23:58 UTC

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On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 11:12 +0100, Werner Koch wrote: 
> The OpenPGP protocol does not specify any trust model.  It provides just
> the features to build a PKI.  Some use the WoT, others build a X.509
> alike system, some do not care at all, or use an ssh like non-PKI.
Sure, I primarily meant, "if the goal is to modify OpenPGP such way,
that what we can do now is no longer possible" :)


Cheers,
Chris.