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Yeah... I guess a little bit it does. Keybase offers an alternative to Web of Trust that kernel.org itself uses (https://www.kernel.org/doc/wot/). Keybase solution is having multiple social-proofs instead of the Web of Trust. Sadly this is unnecessarily centralized but I've seen approaches to implement Keybase-like social proofs systems in pure OpenPGP: https://github.com/wiktor-k/openpgp-proofs#openpgp-proofs

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Ooh, I've not seen wiktor-k/openpgp-proofs before. Too bad it doesn't have more adoption, as I like it's solution to keybase's centralization.

Sadly neither project has an elegant solution to private accounts or services. IRC usernames and Signal are examples of the second. For private accounts, both solutions need specific tool integration, cooperation between services, or more manual interaction by the user. Ideally, a new internet standard would be created and adopted, but I really don't see that happening.

As someone who's put thought into this, I'm wondering what your thoughts on this are?

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