Joseph Bonneau, one of the paper's authors, talked about this in the Stanford Computer (course EE380) during Autumn quarter. The talk's abstract: http://ee380.

Joseph Bonneau, one of the paper's authors, talked about this in the Stanford Computer (course EE380) during Autumn quarter. The talk's abstract: http://ee380.stanford.edu/Abstracts/161130.html http://ee380.stanford.edu/Abstracts/161130.html A video: http://ee380.stanford.edu/Abstracts/161130-video.html http://ee380.stanford.edu/Abstracts/161130-video.html One thing I didn't understand, is that CONIKS is not something where clients can insert keys in an unrestricted manner: There is a gatekeeper (run by the service provider), who does some sort of testing/control before inserting a new key.