Comment by flomo

> Finally, the Web of Trust was a bright, shiny idea — and wrong

Yeah, this whole part is some 90s cypherpunk way of modeling human relations, which has never mapped onto any real world relationships. As soon as people had real world digital identities outside of their gokukillerwolfninja666 logins, this didn't help.

CA ecosystem might be fundamentally flawed, but WoT was a complete failure. So PGP users end up trusting some key server which is probably sitting under someone's desk and has been owned by every serious intelligence service since forever.