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If someone could use your public SSH from say Github and send you a private message that would be great. From my understanding that is not possible. You need to
by mikeytown2 11y ago
If someone could use your public SSH from say Github and send you a private message that would be great. From my understanding that is not possible. You need to generate and exchange PGP keys before, a major UX issue. Allow SSH public keys to be used and we'll be a lot closer to fixing the secure email issue.
- anon1mous 11y agoBut they can, it's just not PGP.
- nailer 11y agoAlso Facebook (which has an official onion site to help if your internet connection is suspect) has GPG as a standard part of all user profiles. This would be a much more normal person directory than GitHub or MIT ( yes someone on HN suggested MIT as a mainstream PGP directory)
- rakoo 11y agoFriends (https://moose-team.github.io/friends/ https://moose-team.github.io/friends/) allows you to use your SSH keys but it's not email anymore.
- kstrauser 11y agoThat's pretty much what https://keybase.io https://keybase.io does, in a roundabout way. It links your public identity across many social networks to a PGP key, so you could say "let me talk to kstrauser on GitHub" (or on Hacker News!) and it would map that back to my public key.