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I see this a lot as a justification for crypto and tbh I don’t buy it. Why can’t we just use key pairs without all the commodity token nonsense? Blockchains a
by rank0 5y ago
I see this a lot as a justification for crypto and tbh I don’t buy it.
Why can’t we just use key pairs without all the commodity token nonsense? Blockchains are a hyper redundant global network of adversarial servers. This is the silliest way possible to implement a key based id system.
- seanhunter 5y agoYou absolutely can, and if you read what I wrote above I'm not shilling for any token or pushing any kind of blockchain. I'm saying the user experience of having your keypair in a browser extension with an API that lots of sites agree to use is significantly superior to the old gpg way of doing signatures and verification and means that you can do what the GP wanted (having a key that you control representing your identity which is strongly authenticated with zero knowledge and not an account on each server). You can do all of that without any sort of blockchain and it's something fediverse sites could adopt.
- rank0 5y agoThat’s fair I just assumed you were shilling because you mentioned web3 and metamask. I totally agree and hope the web moves in that direction. Unfortunately I think the tech giants will fight tooth and nail to retain their sso products. People also generally do not want to perform key management :(