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Persona, in some ways, seems to be filling the PKI gap. It's a simple method for any email supplier to supply a key asserting that a particular email address i
by AndrewDucker 14y ago
Persona, in some ways, seems to be filling the PKI gap.
It's a simple method for any email supplier to supply a key asserting that a particular email address is owned by a particular person, that that person can then use to authenticate elsewhere.
I'm actually somewhat baffled that it's taken this long for someone to come up with it!
- lukeh 14y agoLikewise. We want to extend it to non-web protocols where other attempts such as SPKM and PKU2U have either failed or not got much traction beyond a particular vendor implementation (respectively).