On 15 Jun 96 at 13:09, Hal wrote: [..]

There was considerable discussion in the design of PGP's key signatures on this issue, and Phil decided against trying to let people express publicly how much they trust others. Among other things, he was afraid that people would feel compelled to lie for social reasons, leading to inaccurate trust estimates and weak key validations.

Good point. Any system with multi-valued or yes/no signatures becomes unresolvable in a web, making these values useless beyond an order or one or two levels. We've argued about this before on the list... Another interesting point, though: feature creep. Something like that may be another intimidating factor that turns people off from PGP. Rob --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.