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I'm trying to better understand Activitypub and I understand that there's a signature to avoid forgeries of known accounts.

However I'm having trouble understanding what prevents a malicious actor from sending a private spam message supposedly from a never before seen account name with valid generated key pair but for a domain they've never bought since there is no DNS lookup or test.

Thank you!

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[โ€“] syboxez@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the point of 2, it could be made optional, so that the user could choose.

[โ€“] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe... I am working on an AP implementation that will reject anything not signed with VCDI because it has such desirable properties. In my implementation all crypto is done client-side only, so the server can't reasonably be expected to do HTTP signing.