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louis-paul on July 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The PGP Problem

Keybase builds a lot on top of saltpack, which works like a saner PGP: https://saltpack.org

The underlying cryptography is NaCl, which is referenced in the original post.

cpach on July 17, 2019 [–]

I don’t get it. How does Saltpack solve the issue of identity management?

louis-paul on July 17, 2019 | [–]

saltpack does not solve identity management itself, it is merely the cryptography and the physical format. Keybase, however, is all about identity: https://keybase.io.

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