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# Fedi-E2EE Public Key Directory Specification v0.1.0 released

This is not a production-ready specification. It is the basis I will use for developing the reference implementation.

https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification/releases/tag/v0.1.0

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