bye bye ViaCode

[Pete Chown]

Adrian Midgley wrote:

> Interesting effect on some serious NHS programmes.
> 
> Web of Trust anyone?

How would you use WoT in the NHS?  It would be fascinating if it could
be made to work.

The problem as I see it is that you are going to want to send an email
to consultant X.  Gnupg will complain that it can't find reasons to
trust his key.  Now, you might have been encrypting your email to other
consultants quite happily, but it so happens that you don't have enough
acquaintances in common with X to allow it to work.

The only way round this (as far as I can see) is to use the WoT in a
rather hierarchical manner.  You impose structure on the WoT so that you
know you will always be able to trust the keys you need to.  Yet by
doing this, you are really going back to a CA based model.

-- 
Pete