From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 07:30:06 +0800
To: Aviel Rubin <rubin@usenix.ORG>
Subject: Re: Paths of trust in PGP
In-Reply-To: <199610051534.IAA13534@usenix.ORG>
Message-ID: <199610062142.QAA05444@mailhub.amaranth.com>
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In <199610051534.IAA13534@usenix.ORG>, on 10/05/96 at 08:34 AM,
   Aviel Rubin <rubin@usenix.ORG> said:


>There is a really cool service being offered on the web. It allows
>users to trace the paths of trust between two keys in the PGP world.
>It is worth checking out:

>  http://www.research.att.com/~reiter/PathServer/

>This is a good way to find the paths you want in the web of trust.
>For example, you can type in your key id, and the key id of a new,
>candidate key, and you will find all of the signature paths
>from your key to the new key. You'll be surprized at how connected
>the graph is.

In case anyone is intrested I have added a direct interface to this in my PGP front
end. :)

I also have added a real-time key search & retrevial.

They will be included in the next version which should be out by the end of the month
after I get done working out the kinks.

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