Certisfy - Bringing IRL trust to the web

Hey Notary! Certisfy is a cybersecurity startup offering a service that facilitates online trust by enabling people to project trust and verify information using cryptographic certificates.  No worries, you don't need to know anything about cryptography to understand and use it :) The verifications are done by entities we call trust anchors, we think notaries could make an ideal trust anchor cohort to perform these verifications, at least for basic verifications such as identity, location, age...etc.  For instance if you have been following the news lately you may have noticed efforts being made to require age verification for online services.  With Certisfy, notaries could perform these age verifications and issue certificates for them. The certificate holders will then be able to use the Certisfy app to prove they meet the age requirement for a given service. This is not a notary "training" hustle, there is plenty of that in the space. :) Rather, it is an opportunity t...

We are expanding our previous experiment to include people who posses PGP keys hosted at certain domains. For now we are whitelisting Keybase.io, meaning if you have a Keybase PGP key it can be used to procure a trust anchor certificate via the Certisfy app. It should be noted that this is strictly experimental, meaning most certificates will likely at some point be suspended or out right revoked if it seems they are being used to issue untrustworthy certificates.  The allowance of Keybase is not ideal since there is no id proofing and there is no reason to assume the person behind the Keybase key is a suitable trust anchor. It is however something used by folks interested in cryptographic solutions related to internet trust and security, so at least for experimentation it is appropriate. To validate a certificate request with your Keybase PGP key, first use your Keybase key to sign the following text (no trailing or leading spaces): Using public key hosted at ${PGPPubkeyURL} , ...