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I like the Keybase model of linking multiple online identities to a keyholder.

The PGP web-of-trust model could also work, and mobile apps to ease keysigning could make adoption more feasible than the old keysigning party idea.

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When these sorts of questions come up I'm often quite frustrated keybase is no longer under active development. It felt like it really did have a reasonable solution to a hard problem (proof of identity), and it had what was needed to start making cryptography tools easier to use for people. It wasn't perfect, and I wasn't a fan of their drift towards cryptocurrency towards the end, but it's a real shame they decided to sell to zoom for an acqui-hire.

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