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@morgan what about simple backlink verification? I see the theoretical utility of your idea but wonder if backlinks aren’t already sufficient. If a bubble-like service wanted, it could display check emojis next to profile links with backlinks
2023-06-04 · 11 months ago
🕹️ skyjake [...] · 2023-06-04 at 04:32:
I was pondering whether you could decorate display names with hashes of the identity
Well, technically it is possible to do the equivalent of PGP signatures but using the client certificate key pair. You would have your username followed by a signed hash, and anyone who has your public key could verify that the signature is valid.
However, you'd have to use quite low-level cryptography APIs to do that in practice, and while OpenSSL will let you do it, I'm not sure how many other TLS libraries would. Any client that wouldn't support this would show ugly hashes to the user.
This would be perhaps the only way to prove your identity, but I doubt anyone wants to implement it. Might as well make an actual PGP signed message saying that, "yes, this is my account."
☕️ Morgan · 2023-06-08 at 09:37:
@satch @skyjake
I tried some things, and wrote about them :)
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