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Re: "I was thinking about ways to sign a gemtext message with a..."
Step 1) A user friendly, transportable public key. Step 2) Social sites let me voluntarily validate the key using the site and the site announces it on my profile page. Step 3) clients add features that can copy/paste the keys into a client-local address book. Step 4) user friendly transportable identity, the low tech way!
Oct 13 · 3 months ago
That was pretty much the idea, yes. Rather than share the public key I proposed hashing again then sharing only part, that makes it really only useful for matching identities.
You still have the problem that users could post e.g. to Bubble claiming particular hash. You have to have a "known trusted place" e.g. user profile where the server shares it correctly, and teach people to trust only that.
I think the key advantage to the accepted "link both from somewhere you control" method is that posting hashes does not favour personal capsule owners, instead it relies on trustworthy shared/social capsules.
Thanks.
🐵 cquenelle · Oct 13 at 13:46:
I guess I see the problem in two parts. 1) who is this person *claiming* to be? 2) Do I trust the claim?
For step one we need a global unique name (that’s provable). For step two it will always be a grey area depending on what sites you personally trust. Different people will trust different sites.
I was thinking about ways to sign a gemtext message with a key and I remember a post a while back talking about posting keys. But my gemsearch king-fu is weak. Can anyone help me? I remember they had the idea of a pictograph for a public key. Maybe I’d want another pictograph for the digest signature? (I know my terminology is wrong there.)