PhD project ideas

Wiktor Kwapisiewicz wiktor at metacode.biz
Thu Jul 19 14:44:07 CEST 2018


>> I don't know what is WKD, and Keybase as far as I know is centralized, 
>> it is not distributed.
>> If it was distributed, it would have been a better alternative than 
>> keyservers, in my opinion.
>>
> wkd = Web Key Discovery. 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-service-06 is the 
> current draft.  Basically, you run a web server with your key on it.

Yes on own domain, and over HTTPS.

Recently WKD is gaining some adoption, e.g. gentoo.org added support for 
retrieving its developer's keys [0] over WKD.

Kind regards,
Wiktor

[0]: https://gentoo.org/inside-gentoo/developers/

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