From b19099a4af1f2ef5fb2d4f64b21770207f76a17e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heiko Schaefer Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 14:41:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] longer story: https://codeberg.org/openpgp/notes/pulls/161#issuecomment-1368213 --- book/source/04-certificates.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/book/source/04-certificates.md b/book/source/04-certificates.md index 0119663..c36f943 100644 --- a/book/source/04-certificates.md +++ b/book/source/04-certificates.md @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ We have to distinguish the "packet level" information about a certificate from a #### Reasoning about append-only properties in a distributed system -OpenPGP is a thoroughly distributed system. Users can obtain and transmit certificate information about their own, as well as other users', certificates using a broad range of mechanisms. These mechanisms include keyservers, manual handling, [Web Key Directory](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-service/) (WKD) and [Autocrypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocrypt). +OpenPGP is a decentral and distributed system. Users can obtain and transmit certificate information about their own, as well as other users', certificates using a broad range of mechanisms. These mechanisms include keyservers, manual handling, [Web Key Directory](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-service/) (WKD) and [Autocrypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocrypt). Different users' OpenPGP software may obtain different views of a particular certificate, over time. Individual users' OpenPGP instances have to reconcile and store a combined version of the possibly disparate elements they obtain from different sources.