GPG: Sign full public key
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Description
Currently we just sign the GPG fingerprint. It's relatively human friendly, but it comes at the cost of signatures being over far less entropy/data than signing the full public key would bring.
This could be for absolutely nothing, but it feels like we should present & sign the whole public key, to make extra sure there's not some sneaky impersonation.
current example
Verifying my PGP key on keytrace
did: did:plc:zjbq26wybii5ojoypkso2mso
gpg: f0:00:ba:3d
possible next
Verifying my PGP key on keytrace
did: did:plc:zjbq26wybii5ojoypkso2mso
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
mDMEanQJtxYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAfP2sBlRAvVijq6wowWVTAoPtDol1urqeQwSz
EOeKCAm0GWtleXRyYWNlLXRlc3RAZXhhbXBsZS5jb22IkAQTFgoAOBYhBKVwnIRH
Lv4QS9nQ+y6rLN824qqQBQJqdAm3AhsDBQsJCAcCBhUKCQgLAgQWAgMBAh4BAheA
AAoJEC6rLN824qqQ2gkBAKSe1RFKd2rRBzbiC1fzpL/u9ci9WupKkY7WW1j7ArwB
AQClgfDXcw2oWtU46//SgE1e5Sm/D/vf+ivEE3hcVrL3Aw==
=OBA0
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
how?
use gpg --armor --export instead of gpg --fingerprint to get the full public key, update the input box to accept multi-line input.
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Research direction
Start by finding the current code that runs gpg --fingerprint and the input box used for verification. Replace the fingerprint export with gpg --armor --export, update the input handling for multiline armored keys, and verify that a full public key can be displayed and processed successfully.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100