Hey community,

I want to brainstorm with you.

In my opinion there is a big advantage of s/mime. A real person get issued a certificate only if he/she can prove his/her identity to an authority (government). In the email context, this means that you can be sure that the mail comes from the person you expect it to come from. And you can be sure that it is a real person.

Now i thinking about use this with the keyoxid service. Let me give you an example:

There is a real person called "Harry Potter". Harry applies for a certificate from the local authority and has to show identification. Now he want to link a few online accounts to this certificate (like keyoxid). When someone visits his profile, he can see that the linked accounts really belong to the real person.

Maybe this is usefull for people like: influencer, politician or people who want to prove the authenticity of their accounts

Now let's talk about the sense of purpose and feasibility. I'm not savvy enough to judge.