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Using KeyOxide :: blog.oddbit.com

In today’s post, we look at KeyOxide, a service that allows you to cryptographically assert ownership of online resources using your GPG key. Some aspects of the service are less than obvious; in response to some questions I saw on Mastodon I though I would put together a short guide to making use of the service. We’re going to look at the following high-level tasks: Create a GPG key Publish the GPG key

https://blog.oddbit.com/post/2022-11-13-using-keyoxide/

carnotweat commented 1 year ago

is lsarks, instead of my own github handle, at the end of gist url here, for the purpose of crowdsourcing the claim of identity ? Is it on some kind of blockchain? ,

larsks commented 1 year ago

@carnotweat I'm not sure I understand your question. You can only verify your own github identity.

There is no blockchain. KeyOxide is verifying that your claim (e.g., a Github gist) contains your openpgp key fingerprint, and that your openpgp key is annotated with a pointer (generally a URL) to the claim.