PGP public key database

[ion1]

It would be nice to have the PGP public key database in IPFS.

SKS (OpenPGP keyserver)

[davidar]

:+1: https://pgp.key-server.io/sks-dump/

[davidar]

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/Qmbs2DxMBraF3U8F7vLAarGmZaSFry3vVY5zytuN3BxwaY

• [ ] connect with https://github.com/ipfs/specs/tree/master/keychain

[simonv3]

Just putting keybase.io here:

https://keybase.io/

[davidar]

@simonv3 https://keybase.io/davidar ;)

[simonv3]

@davidar Heh, sadly, I don't have a keybase account, just thought it was a relevant source, maybe to talk to them as well in the future.

[davidar]

@simonv3 definitely, they even publish their data as a Merkle Tree, so it would probably fit in quite nicely with IPFS.

CC: @jbenet @keybase @lord @Sidnicious

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[jbenet]

they even publish their data as a Merkle Tree, so it would probably fit in quite nicely with IPFS.

Nice! So if we ingest it cleverly, we can FUSE mount keybase with ipfs.

cat /ipns/data.keybase.io/jbenet/public-key

[markg85]

Just curious, is there an update on this? I'd like to fetch a public key from someone else via IPFS.

I guess what i'm asking is if there is a SKS Keyserver implementation to be used within IPFS? That would be so cool and would make another small part fully distributed!

Having said that, i'd expect it to be some sub-command of ipfs to interact with an "sks keyserver" (lets say it's called sks, or call it gpg). I'd then guess a command like: ipfs sks get <key id> to get me the details of that id. This would be the same as gpg --recv-keys <id>, Searching for one would be ipfs sks get <key id> which in the gpg command would be gpg --search <id> An id can then be:

• AFAFAFAFAFAFAFAF (16 characters, the upper 64 bit of the fingerprint)
• AFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAFAF (the full fingerprint
• [email protected] (by email)