Practical pubkey verification & authentication requires a repository of public keys. Also, shudder password recovery/reset mechanisms. I spent a few hours thin

Practical pubkey verification & authentication requires a repository of public keys. Also, shudder password recovery/reset mechanisms. I spent a few hours thinking about it once: this isn't much different from the DNS problem. If a good distributed DNS system can be developed (ie, highly resistant to malicious poisoning), that algorithm can likely transfer to pubkey archives.