Key transparency: A transparent and secure way to look up public keys

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  • Key Transparency

    Discontinued A transparent and secure way to look up public keys.

  • Archived. Not sure when. :( I'm not sure what if anything is a decent replacement/substitute.

    In the README examples I see text about what I think is Certificate Transparency. That was definitely the first thing this made me think of. There's also a lot of talk in the project about CONIKS[1], & associate research papers are about 'bringing key transparency to end users'.

    The scenarios[2] are interesting, but I'm not sure fully how this project helps. They explicitly call out Upspin for encrypted storage, which was linked recently[3].

    It appears to make heavy use of the Trillian cryptographically verifiable data store[4].

    [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/04/coniks.html

    [2] https://github.com/google/keytransparency/blob/master/docs/s...

    [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520559

    [4] https://github.com/google/trillian

  • trillian

    A transparent, highly scalable and cryptographically verifiable data store.

  • Archived. Not sure when. :( I'm not sure what if anything is a decent replacement/substitute.

    In the README examples I see text about what I think is Certificate Transparency. That was definitely the first thing this made me think of. There's also a lot of talk in the project about CONIKS[1], & associate research papers are about 'bringing key transparency to end users'.

    The scenarios[2] are interesting, but I'm not sure fully how this project helps. They explicitly call out Upspin for encrypted storage, which was linked recently[3].

    It appears to make heavy use of the Trillian cryptographically verifiable data store[4].

    [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/04/coniks.html

    [2] https://github.com/google/keytransparency/blob/master/docs/s...

    [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31520559

    [4] https://github.com/google/trillian

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