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PKI has two models - 

1) centralized with a special "root" trust node, which is the de-facto standard today

2) decentralized using web-of-trust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

RFC6091 was a proposal to use OpenPGP certs for HTTPS.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6091

Apache webserver already supports the server-side via the mod-gnutls module.
https://mod.gnutls.org/

This project is to include this support in cURL so that we now have a functional client that completes an important part of the story.

Follow this thread on the submitted patch:
https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2015-02/0192.html