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by uranium235 2239 days ago
I think it might be a good idea to use something like IPFS to distribute keys. Now that cloudflare seems to want to support it officially, the only exception to why they might not are the same kind of lawsuits that brought down the pirate bay but cloudflare has opted to offer content blacklisting/cache refuse in their terms of service so I'm not sure how that's going to work out, but so far since 2018 nothing seems to have changed. I'm not really sure what their takeaway is though, it must provide them some benefit otherwise it's just a waste of their money to provide a gateway service. I'm not sure how well it's going to scale once people start building on it and actually use it more.
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I want to add to that the ethereum name service, https://www.increaseo.com/eth-domains-ipfs/ could also potentially play a role in a means to efficiently and reliably distribute public keys in conjunction with IPFS? Seems worth considering at least.
and it's not the fastest thing but in theory it's simple enough that you can just do something like this:

ipfs add test.asc added QmX1yKeerXb9vSYoQXcZuuw1QFTu5UxDCec4hY9htjRYE7 test.asc

and retrieve it https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmX1yKeerXb9vSYoQXcZuuw1QFT...

if you have an ENS name you can access it this way: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipns/atmarketplace.eth/