[voltagex_]

What can this be used for? I'd love to display my GPG key there instead but I guess that's not possible.

[stedaniels]

Have you seen https://keybase.io/ that's an ideal place for your GPG keys (and more) :-)

[peterhajas]

I can't tell if it's finished yet:

> Keybase will be a public directory of publicly auditable public keys.

Nor do I understand why I'd use it. Do lots of people post GPG encrypted messages to each other on gist?

[mseebach]

It's an attempt to solve the key distribution problem. By having you verify your keys on third party sites, a MITM or NSL attack (providing you with fake keys so your messages can be intercepted) gets a lot harder as you have to attack n sites simultaneously instead of one.

[riffraff]

as an alternative to ssh-copy-id ?

[andreaso]

Yepp, and there is already an existing tool, which currently supports GitHub as well as Launchpad.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man1/ssh-impor... https://launchpad.net/ssh-import-id