On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 9:00 PM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > > Another possible listing place is keybase.io. It takes a slightly > different approach to key validation. The basic idea is that you > demonstrate your control of the matching private key by using it to > sign proofs on various platforms (websites, social media, etc), that > keybase tracks and validates. People can confirm that at least the > person who controls the domain name, or website or twitter or some > others, also has access to the private key. So, if you think they'd > have noticed if they lost control of those things and somehow let you > know, then it's reasonable to infer that it's really them that > provided the public key.
I take back anything remotely positive I said about keybase. I recall that it was interesting a few years ago, but clearly I hadn't looked at it recently. Desirable features, like for example publishing my key and letting me do operations locally without their keybase application seem to be missing now.
