Comment by mangeletti
11 years ago
What authorization is required in this scenario? I'm talking about a novel idea here, one that doesn't fit into the existing CA model. There would be no CA in this scenario; verification would be decentralized, based on shared information, not on knowledge of a secret.
I'm not sure web-of-trust can be considered a novel idea in 2014.
We can all look at the variety of web-of-trust methods to see how well that's taken off amongst internet users.
It is novel, in terms of there being any such service in existence, ever.