ikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 年前Announcing FOKS, the Federated Open Key Service | The FOKS Blogblog.foks.pubexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
arrow-up125arrow-down1external-linkAnnouncing FOKS, the Federated Open Key Service | The FOKS Blogblog.foks.pubikidd@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 年前message-square6fedilink
minus-squareStrit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 年前What’s the advantage of something like FOKS compared to gnupg or openPGP servers?
minus-squarejust_another_person@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 年前Right at the top: FOKS is like Keybase, but fully open-source and federated, with SSO and YubiKey support.
minus-squareStrit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 年前I guess the reason I am asking is that I have never understood the use-case for Keybase either. So your answer does not really answer my question. 😀
minus-squarealexcleac@szmer.infolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 年前My understanding of Keybase is that it was some kind identity aggregator. You were able to link identities not just by keys, but also by external services, like Twitter (at a time), email and other things.
minus-squareStrit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 年前Ah, so the main difference from gnupg and openpgp servers is that it can use other methods than email to identify the owner of a key. Thank you.
What’s the advantage of something like FOKS compared to gnupg or openPGP servers?
Right at the top:
I guess the reason I am asking is that I have never understood the use-case for Keybase either.
So your answer does not really answer my question. 😀
My understanding of Keybase is that it was some kind identity aggregator. You were able to link identities not just by keys, but also by external services, like Twitter (at a time), email and other things.
Ah, so the main difference from gnupg and openpgp servers is that it can use other methods than email to identify the owner of a key. Thank you.