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		jcims on March 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Security.txt Seems like there would be a natural tie-in with DNS to publish a pgp key to authenticate the txt file (per the advice to validate the key)

Retr0spectrum on March 14, 2021 [–]

Seems a bit redundant, if the page is being served over HTTPS, which ultimately relies on DNS records.

The advantage of PGP is that it can be verified entirely out-of-band, and distributed widely.

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