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the good news is that keybase now deals in the same EC25519 keys that we do :) the bad news is that they've never responded to any of our requests to hook up. P
by Arathorn 10y ago
the good news is that keybase now deals in the same EC25519 keys that we do :) the bad news is that they've never responded to any of our requests to hook up. Plus there's a bit of a philosophical mismatch given keybase are effectively centralised, even if they publish the root of their ID tree to a blockchain.
We need to solve decentralised identity somehow for Matrix anyway, so hopefully we'll find a solution soon :)
- nickik 10y agoInteresting. I don't propose that Keybase is adopted on the hole, but somewho we need to able to connect authentication system (centralised or not) with the protocols we use for chat. Maybe these can be made pluggable. Seems like a hard problem, Im thankful that nobody expects me to come up with a solution. Whats the best information on the current Matrix identity stuff? I did not find really good information how this currently works. Thanks for your work.
- Arathorn 10y agoAt the moment Matrix identity is a very simple centralised system: http://matrix.org/docs/spec/identity_service/unstable.html http://matrix.org/docs/spec/identity_service/unstable.html. The official bug for replacing this with something decentralised is https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/712 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/712.