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It also needs to be baked into contact management apps so that exchanging your credentials becomes no different than sending your contact card via Bluetooth, NF
by spiralpolitik 12y ago
It also needs to be baked into contact management apps so that exchanging your credentials becomes no different than sending your contact card via Bluetooth, NFC etc. I suspect that this would require something a bit more robust than vCard to package everything up in a nice bundle.
- dublinben 12y agovCard already supports this with a field specifically for public keys. It can have either a link to the key, or the key itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard#Properties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard#Properties
- spiralpolitik 12y agovCard (to my knowledge) doesn't have anyway of validating the integrity of the card data so can be altered without knowledge. You would at least need to add some kind of wrapper so that you could add a signed checksum.
- dublinben 12y agoIn order to verify the signature, you'd have to get their public key. Since that's where this all started, we're just in a loop of untrustworthy ways to get someone's public key.