We just finished adding #WebOfTrust support to #PGPainless!
Many thanks to @NGIZero and #NLnet for funding the project!

https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2023/07/25/pgpainless-meets-the-web-of-trust/

https://nlnet.nl/project/PGPainless/

#spam ruins everything. See this post by @davidrevoy

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article980/ive-decided-to-give-up-on-my-blogs-commenting-system

When I see how psychotic people can get online I imagine a web that is open, but only to that subset of people who can be civil to each-other. Using a #WebOfTrust network, maybe it's feasible?

I started imagining this here:

https://olivierforget.net/blog/2020/web-of-ok-people/

I ended up with more questions than answers, but its would be worth a shot given where we end up when there is zero gate-keeping:

https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/110770135209043458

@oliphant I like this idea a lot! The #WebOfTrust

@schizanon I agree that more tooling is necessary to allow users to control their own feeds, the current tendency of relegating everything to server-side filtering rather than client-side ordering, sorting & muting/killing is an obnoxious departure from the traditional decentralized communication protocols.

I disagree somewhat regarding the tags, mostly because preventing dataset poisoning would require something akin to #WebOfTrust and that's complicated to ask of all to understand.

I wasn't a fan of the verified account process on Twitter but for those that were able to get verified it did help protect their brand. My hope is that the federated universe will resurrect the #WebOfTrust where we build a cryptographic trust network based upon trusting those whom we trust. Mastodon is training us a bit for this by trusting that the people we follow are following the true accounts of others we may want to follow. Just needs some tech around it to take it to the next level.

What are models for social structures for decentralized coordination, info sharing, and response to network threats, and how might we apply them to #fediverse ops?

Adding some hashtags for findability, see start of thread at https://hachyderm.io/@juno/109452321046920379

#FediSec #FediBlock #MastodonSec #infosec #WebOfTrust #trust

Looks, like a great concept (#weboftrust anyone?) and it takes only 2.2 seconds of extra delay on a 30K node grid. That’s 30K buildings 😅

@frank I think @keyoxide is where the most work is happening. #keyoxide #weboftrust

@dl It'll end up being the #WebOfTrust all over again - admins who trust other admins and base their federation on this. (Except this time the Web of Trust will have another chance at trying to work at scale.)

Blocklists will also likely become automated and synchronized, and modifying them will become based on trust as well.

Is there a web of trust approach to verify Fediverse accounts? Or has anyone tried one?

#fediverse #weboftrust #verification

Is there a web of trust approach to verify Fediverse accounts? Or has anyone tried one?

#fediverse #weboftrust #verification

Dimanche 12:30 à #Toulouse il y aura une Key signing party pour vos clefs #gpg les détails https://cfp.capitoledulibre.org/cdl-2022/talk/F8FURJ/.

#ksp #weboftrust #wot #cdl2022

Twitter’s verification process was massively unfair to the average process. So far I am not super impressed with using real=me. I have been trying to read posts on use of #KeyBase and #KeyOxide. I like this a bit better but ultimately the #Fediverse really needs to get behind a #WebOfTrust based solution. I have always loved the potential for WebOfTrust. Now is the time.

@hemmes @Gargron OK. But now you have to have instances that trust your instance(s) verification.

And, since the code is open, I (having mega$ ala Musk) can fire up an AWS cloud like "verified.social", charge $8/id, and send all other #Mastodon admins into a crisis worse than the current #BirdSite #RefugeCrisis.

If you want a #WebOfTrust, you do NOT want to rely on any specific verification authority. You want to rely on the entities you, as a person, actually trust.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

@fsteiner

https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/pgp-web-trust-core-concepts-behind-trusted-communication/

... with all its pros and cons!

#WebOfTrust #PKI #OpenPGP #PGP

A game developer that I know on #Twitter (no mockery) made the critical mistake of asking a question in public that gave me the opportunity to go on at some length about the intersection of web of trust systems and metrics alongside social media architectures.

All of you guys know that is a terrible idea. It can only end poorly.

But here we are.

Thank you for joining me on this journey.

#socialmedia #weboftrust #identity

https://odysee.com/@LexTenebris:9/on-web-of-trust-and-twitter:b?r=GXFuFbK7Yj3zUwXExfE2zn19jk7v4Eiu

I wonder if there have been any attempts to map #Cryptography terminology to common parlance, and avoid crypto terms in discussions and in software interfaces.

To attest content, the "self-attesting" key is used. Others verify your attestation on content using your published "verification" key. #WebOfTrust doesn't need to enter the discussion until a common use-case pops up. #PGP

Animation of the web of trust of the currency #Ğ1 from 2017/03/08 to 2021/08/27:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KJnp1DC0PSE

Note: circles are members (their size represents the number of connections), the grey lines are connections between members.

#weboftrust #currency #money #libremoney

qui est partant pour faire de la chiffrofète (signing party)durant le #SOTM de Nantes cette semaine ?
#openstreetmap

ça demande d'imprimer des papiers avec sa clé #GPG plusieurs fois (clé publique, pas l'autre hein) et de ne pas certifier sur le moment mais plus tard après avoir noté avec des paperasses que les gens sont bien qui ils sont. mais ça demande de réunir les clés à l'avance par un ou des organisateurs.

#wot #weboftrust #pgp #gnupg

I'm excited to share with you that #PGPainless is getting funded by @NGIZero (NGI Assure) for creating an implementation of the Web-of-Trust!

See https://nlnet.nl/project/PGPainless/ for more details and make sure to follow NGIs awesome endeavors to improve the internet!

#openpgp #weboftrust