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Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com
Fri Mar 5 17:03:42 GMT 2021
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Food for thoughts...
PREAMBLEThis is entirely unrelated to either TLS, or TOFU, or the Gemini protocol per se. Just a possible usage convention, agreed between user-agents and participating services.
INTRODUCTIONKeybase provides a well thought off platform for identity proof, with easy integration, among other things:
Proof Integrationhttps://book.keybase.io/guides/proof-integration-guide
Plus a full-fledged toolkit:
Command Linehttps://book.keybase.io/guides/command-line
And *nix friendly:Linuxhttps://book.keybase.io/guides/linux
And open source:https://github.com/keybase
Thanks Keybase for sharing!
USAGE
In a nutshell, Gemini services could piggyback on Keybase to prove their identity and sign all text/gemini they emit.
User-agents could in turn validate such signed text/gemini and visually indicate the outcome (exact details skipped for brevity).
That's all.
Nothing much to it actually. All the hard work has already been done by Keybase & friends :)
P.S.
There is also Keybase's saltpack & sigchain:
https://saltpack.org
https://book.keybase.io/docs/teams/sigchain
https://keys.pubhttps://keys.pub/docs/specs/sigchain.html
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