Six Degrees of PGP

A Web of Trust visualizer aimed at finding the shortest path between two existing persons holding PGP keys, showing their degrees of separation.

How it works

1. cache a dump of the Cyberbits keyserver via rsync;
2. parse the dump using Sequoia-PGP;
3. load public keys as nodes and signatures as edges in a neo4j database;
4. query via neo4rs;

Inspiration

• this message on the Matrix room of the Church of Cryptography;
• Six Degrees of Wikipedia.

Extra resources

• Sequoia Web of Trust: a Rust library and tool for authenticating bindings between User IDs and certificates using OpenPGP's web of trust.