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by lxgr 891 days ago
> the federation protocol could easily define how the authoritative hash/key for each user would be shared based on their e-mail

That really doesn't sound that easy in a federated protocol.
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error503 889 days ago
Really? It doesn't seem to me like it gets any more trivial than 'hit DNS for the domain to find federation server, send a GET request' to me. You could even do the whole thing with DNS, though that has privacy implications. What am I missing?
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