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Keyoxide is a privacy-friendly open source tool to create and verify decentralized online identities using a cryptography-based approach to bidirectional linking (keyoxide.org)

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Just like passports for real life identities, Keyoxide can be used to verify the online identity of people to make sure one is interacting with whom they are supposed to be and not imposters. Unlike real life passports, Keyoxide works with online identities or "personas", meaning these identities can be anonymous and one can have multiple separate personas to protect their privacy, both online and in real life.

Keyoxide allows you to prove "ownership" or rather "hold" of accounts on websites, domain names, instant messaging, etc., regardless of your username. You create, or use and existing, cryptographic signature (or OpenPGP key) which acts as your digital passport to link to the various services. I used my existing key with this, and just added the notation claims per service, with my proof placed in the profile of each service I control.

Whilst Keybase is still alive, since its takeover by Zoom, it has been a lot quieter. Keyoxide also allows you to self-host the service, and seems to have a lot of flexibility for the services it links to.

That said, I got a good 10 of my various services linked and verified, except I've had endless issues to get my IRC and XMPP accounts verified.

See https://keyoxide.org/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

is keybase still a thing?

edit: nm the post say it was acquired by zoom. i guess i lost the bet i made with myself that it was a crypto scam.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

KeyOxide has been replacing Keybase for many, so no Keybase is not such a thing any more. To some extent, domain verification on Mastodon for example does do some of this too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks... a year later I found your post. I was looking for info about this after seeing someone with a Keyoxide bit in their bio. I used Keybase.io a few years ago and saw that zoom bought it so... that's the end of that. Looks like Keyoxide is what I need now. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks for letting me know - makes it worth posting here.

[–] Sivilian 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could someone explain like I am dumb, because I am. I don't get it but I want to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a form of self-verified proof of identity.

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