# The GNU Privacy Handbook

Copyright © 1999 by The Free Software Foundation

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Please direct questions, bug reports, or suggestions concerning this manual to the maintainer, Mike Ashley (`<jashley@acm.org>`). When referring to the manual please specify which version of the manual you have by using this version string: `$Name: $`.

Contributors to this manual include Matthew Copeland, Joergen Grahn, and David A. Wheeler. J Horacio MG has translated the manual to Spanish.

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3-1. A hypothetical web of trust

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