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title: "Decentralized Identities with PGP Annotations and Keyoxide"
date: 2023-01-04T09:00:14-05:00
date: 2023-01-04 09:00:14-05:00
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title: Decentralized Identities with PGP Annotations and Keyoxide
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Under asymmetric encryption, for you to send me a message that only I can read you would need to encrypt the message with my public key. I then would have a corresponding private key that can decrypt the message. Public keys are then usually stored onto keyservers for others to query. When querying for a key, how do you know that the public key actually belongs to me? It turns out, you can't since anyone can upload a key pretending to be me.
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My Keyoxide profile: https://keyoxide.org/wkd/brozek%40brandonrozek.com
In fact, Keyoxide is [open source](https://codeberg.org/keyoxide/) meaning that anyone can host their own instance to perform the validation checks.
In fact, Keyoxide is [open source](https://codeberg.org/keyoxide/) meaning that anyone can host their own instance to perform the validation checks.