Comment by 🐙 norayr

if we all could somehow create web of trust, that would be a good experience also for other communities.

Mar 25 · 9 months ago

2 Later Comments ↓

the web of trust (and the rest of PGP) appears to have failed the test of time on the useability aspect.

@CarloMonte , I think the difference if that PGP is not hypertext.

Original Post

Thoughts about TOFU and gemini URLs — I thought about alternative to how to provide some semblence of trust that certificate was in fact created by authour of capsule without centralized points of authority: embedding fingerprints into gemini URLs in place of userinfo component. This way validity of certificate would be determined not by luck or by capital, but by community consensus. It seems to me that it is much...