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

On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 22:56 -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: 
> Web of Trust is a fine academic
> theory but it is not how OpenPGP is really used in the real world.
Lol?
How else do you use it? 


> The lesson here that I draw is to look at how people are actually
> using OpenPGP in practice and work out ways to apply the same approach
> to other similar problems.
Well if your goal is to drop the WoT respectively simply let people
download stuff from a (secured or not) keyserver believing whatever
comes and hoping the best,... then better call it something else
(InsecurePGP?) and leave OpenPGP as is.


Cheers.

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