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List:       pgp-keyserver-folk
Subject:    Graphing the PGP web of trust
From:       Robert Guerra <rguerra () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-05-06 16:32:10
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I'd very much appreciate if someone could help me figure out how to 
compile the GRAPHVIZ package mentioned below for the Mac OSX platform.

thanks in advance

robert

http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/gpg-party.html

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2.5 Graphing the resulting web of trust

Nothing gets people's interest peaked like colorful graphics. 
Therefor, graphing the web of trust in your local area as you build 
it can help motivate people to participate as well as giving everyone 
a clear sense of what's being accomplished as things progress.

You can very easily create a graph of all of the keys and signatures 
in your web of trust by converting that information into a dot file 
which can be fed into a graphing program like dot or neato. A perl 
script which converts the keys and signatures in a keyring to a file 
in the dot format was written by Darxus and is also available under 
the terms of the GPL. In order to graph the web of trust you'll need 
to download Darxus' sig2dot.pl 
<http://www.ChaosReigns.com/code/sig2dot/sig2dot.pl>  script and the 
graphviz package from AT&T Research 
<http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/>. You may not be able 
to graph a web of trust with more than a few hundred nodes due to the 
amount of memory needed to perform such an operation.

Instructions for graphing the web of trust in a gpg keyring are 
included in the sig2dot.pl script, or can be found on the Debian 
keyring graphing page. Again, here is a link to view a graph of a web 
of trust which was produced with the sig2dot.pl script and the neato 
graphing program. More information is available from the Debian 
keyring graphing page.

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