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> Unless you're already in someone's WOT, there's nothing to verify against.

Somebody's been trying to fix that with https://keybase.io/

If anyone is interested, I have 3 keybase invites to hand out. Contact is in my profile.

edit: None left, sorry!

I have 7 invites. contact is also on my profile.

edit: they are all gone.

I have 5 invites, contact in my profile.

Edit: invite count update

I've got 15 more if jnthn's run out :)

I also have a pile of invites.

Indeed; the key used doesn't even appear to be available on any keyserver. However, it does have some use in being able to determine that a newer release was made by the same person as the previous ones. That's something you can't get with HTTPS.

Also if they've had it their for a long time you could get some historical verification of it via archive.org.

For those wondering, I think WOT means "Web of Trust." This seems to be a tool related to that https://www.mywot.com/

No, this is referring to the PGP Web of Trust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN554