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A transparent and secure way to look up public keys.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-01-12 · latest 2022-05-26

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  1. …verifiable data store[4]. [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/04/coniks.html [2] https://github.com/google/keytransparency/blob/master/docs/s... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520559 [4]…
    comment by rektide · 2022-05-26 · in Key transparency: A transparent and secure way to look up public keys
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    Key transparency: A transparent and secure way to look up public keys
    story by tosh · 2022-05-26 · 1 comment
  3. These projects depend on some way to discover public keys, but Keybase is not federated and https://github.com/google/keytransparency/ is way behind schedule.
    comment by lern_too_spel · 2019-10-01 · in Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images
  4. I believe this is a project trying to replace the old school key servers. https://github.com/google/keytransparency/
    comment by philips · 2019-06-29 · in SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack
  5. …fake output addresses, that optimizes unspent transactions database on each Bitcoin node). [0]: https://github.com/google/keytransparency/ [1]: https://keybase.io/docs/server_security/merkle_root_in_bitco...
    comment by hdhzy · 2017-09-27 · in Keybase's mission is to make encryption mainstream
  6. …indeed own `eschmidt@google.com` before letting you register an account using that address. [1]: https://github.com/google/key-transparency/blob/master/docs/...
    comment by Ajedi32 · 2017-01-13 · in Security Through Transparency
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    Key Transparency – A transparent and secure way to look up public keys
    story by maxt · 2017-01-13 · 0 comments
  8. To understand the technical approach to the solution this is a good resource - https://github.com/google/key-transparency/blob/master/docs/... This is also useful for understanding some of the core differences between CONIKS and Key…
    comment by rmhrisk · 2017-01-12 · in Security Through Transparency
  9. The article links https://keytransparency.org/ which is currently just a pointer to https://github.com/google/key-transparency/ . The blog is more 'why' while the repo is mostly 'how'.
    comment by maxerickson · 2017-01-12 · in Security Through Transparency
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    Key Transparency
    story by jf · 2017-01-12 · 0 comments