In late 2022, I blogged about the work needed to develop a specification for end-to-end encryption for the fediverse. I sketched out some of the key management components on GitHub, and then the public work abruptly stalled. A few of you have wondered what’s the deal with that. This post covers why this effort stalled, what I’m proposing we do next. What’s The Hold Up? The “easy” (relatively speaking) parts of the problem are as follows: Secret key management. (This is sketched out already, and ...