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Let's Use DNS Records to Provide Decentralized Identity
My proposal to standardize decentralized identity:
A domain name owner could add a TXT record to their domain configuration that would contain a path to their public key. For example:
TXT pubkey=http://tautvilas.lt/mykey.pub
This would leverage domain names as decentralized identity providers. It could open new possibilities to have loginless web platforms, more wide-spread PGP adoption and so on.
What do you think?
- bluehatbrit 8y agoKeybase already supports DNS as one of their identities you can stitch into your keybase account. It signs a declaration that you own the domain name which you post as a TXT record. The records signed content links back to your keybase account.
- Selousie 8y agoKeybase is great, use Hacker News as an additional source to validate identity, provided you have at least 2 Karma points :)