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Re:Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, In... by mach5 on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:16PM (#19000641)
keybase does! https://keybase.io/
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Re:Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, In... by lucb1e on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:55PM (#19001111)
You're saying at Keybase you don't have to compare your fingerprints out of band?
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Re:Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, In... by 0xb100db1ade on Friday January 25, 2019 @08:16PM (#19004075)
Correct. Key verification is done by looking at signatures on a given user's linked social networks / websites etc
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Re:Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, In... by tyfon on Friday January 25, 2019 @08:34PM (#19004160)
How does it handle DNS spoofing or ip redirection?

And what happens if you have no social networks / websites like me? HN is probably the closest I got to a social network online.

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Re:Facebook to integrate the infrastructure for WhatsApp, In... by indigo945 on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:21PM (#19000717)
How does keybase do key exchanges?
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