Automated search for cryptography public key for a member

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Pluggable, extensible membership database for community organising

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Automated search for cryptography public key for a member #180

Open bfinney-thoughtworks opened 6 years ago

bfinney-thoughtworks commented 6 years ago

To enable sending encrypted communications (e.g. issue #153), a good feature would be for the admin server to automatically search online databases of cryptography public keys, to find matches for a given member.

bfinney-thoughtworks commented 6 years ago

Questions to answer:

When a match is found, what to do with the result? A match might not be correct, so automatically associating with the member seems like a bad idea.
When multiple matches are found, how to distinguish between them?
When no matches are found, how to distinguish this from not-yet-searched?

In all cases:

How to present the keys so they are associated with a member, such that it's meaningful to an admin?