Provide proof of account ownership via Keybase

in #utopian-io7 years ago (edited)

Since the contributors (especially developers) are required to provide a proof that they own a given GitHub account, I'm thinking - why not do it via Keybase?

Keybase already provides a way of proving ownership of a GitHub account, via a signed message in a Gist. There would be two ways I see that this could be extended to the Utopian account:

  • Keybase developers could be asked to add a field for a Steemit/Utopian account, which would put this proof in one place with proofs for other accounts.
  • Utopian could add a profile field for a signed message of pre-determined format. This could then be used to verify the Keybase account, and, by extension, the GitHub account.

Using cryptography seems like a more appropriate way than the currently suggested way of posting a screenshot of a logged in session.

I'll be glad to hear some feedback about this idea! :)



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Well, looks like "sync with github" is also enough since it needs your github account authenticated. It just needs to be a required step.

Currently we have the possibility of linking the account to GitHub and it doesn't seem to be sufficient, so to be honest I don't really see how that will be much different - although I agree that this probably should be a sufficient proof of ownership.
I wanted to suggest an alternative in case it would be simpler to implement.

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