On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Max Krohn <[email protected]> wrote:

> A Keybase “proofs” is a signatures of JSON object that includes: [...] (3)
> the user’s PGP fingerprint
>

Sorry, I must've glossed over this. It would seem to provide an immediate
defense to forging a keypair under which the signature would validate,
however it seems in conjunction with a SHA1 collision that allows the
replacement of the fingerprint in the original message, this could be
potentially problematic.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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