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Found out about this today, you can prepend any GitHub username with .keys to fetch their public keys.

• voltagex_ 12y ago
  What can this be used for? I'd love to display my GPG key there instead but I guess that's not possible.
  • riffraff 12y ago
    as an alternative to ssh-copy-id ?
    • andreaso 12y ago
      Yepp, and there is already an existing tool, which currently supports GitHub as well as Launchpad. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man1/ssh-import-id.1.html http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man1/ssh-impor... https://launchpad.net/ssh-import-id https://launchpad.net/ssh-import-id
  • stedaniels 12y ago
    Have you seen https://keybase.io/ https://keybase.io/ that's an ideal place for your GPG keys (and more) :-)
    • peterhajas 12y ago
      I can't tell if it's finished yet: > Keybase will be a public directory of publicly auditable public keys. Nor do I understand why I'd use it. Do lots of people post GPG encrypted messages to each other on gist?
      • mseebach 12y ago
        It's an attempt to solve the key distribution problem. By having you verify your keys on third party sites, a MITM or NSL attack (providing you with fake keys so your messages can be intercepted) gets a lot harder as you have to attack n sites simultaneously instead of one.
• joe_inferno 12y ago
  you mean you can append any GitHub username