I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory server. This software implements the Key Transparency specification I’ve be…
If you can build in Federated Key Transparency, it’s much easier to reason about “how do I know this public key actually belongs to my friend?” which in turn makes it much easier to get people onboarded with E2EE without major risks.
It’s a building block to make E2EE possible at Fediverse scale.
I’ve written about this topic pretty extensively: https://soatok.blog/category/technology/open-source/fediverse-e2ee-project/
If you can build in Federated Key Transparency, it’s much easier to reason about “how do I know this public key actually belongs to my friend?” which in turn makes it much easier to get people onboarded with E2EE without major risks.