Web of Trust for Communities

A Web of Trust (WoT) is a decentralized trust model where users establish trust relationships by directly verifying each other’s identities, or by relying on other trusted users to do so. It is based on peer-to-peer trust rather than a hierarchical structure (like certificate authorities in Public Key Infrastructure, PKI).

Credentials

There are *tickets*, which are acquired when purchasing a ticket. These do not necessarily imply trust.

Users can vouch for each other through *stamps*, which are attestations and can be revoked.

When a user gets a high trust score, by collecting stamps from other users, a *passport* is emitted. Each community can define a different threshold that lets users obtain there. Depending on the trust required to safeguard the community, this can be higher or lower.