Hi, welcome to Web of Trust, Sam Hart’s workshop-style blog, containing ideas and sketches from my current experiments.

Since most of my work is digital, I’ll be treating each post like a virtual studio visit. The degree of polish may vary, but each post should capture some kernel of interest.

I may touch on open source software projects, developed to work through these ideas, including Aura, Telltale, and Jacquard.

The name “Web of Trust” owes to the concept of distributed key authentication proposed by Phil Zimmermann in 1992, as a solution to PGP’s social scalability challenges. I’ve always been fond of the term because it frames a deeply technical system in human terms.