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Re:Nostr: A Decentralized Messaging Protocol by jazzyjackson on Friday September 01, 2023 @01:37PM (#37353918)
I love the programmatic payments. what's the key rollover story? social key recovery? IMO these are table stakes for PKI to reach the general public. There's a technology called KERI (key event receipt infrastructure) that I'm bullish on, has to do with signing new keys with the old, with witnesses, with configurable threshold cryptography (m-of-n key reconstruction)

my favorite part about that last one is the possibility of social key revocation - if you're in a community misbehaving, the same people you trust to save key fragments in case you lose your private key can conspire against you to lock you out of your account, a kind of cryptographic ban hammer.

Re:Nostr: A Decentralized Messaging Protocol by unboxingelf on Friday September 01, 2023 @01:50PM (#37354071)
Afaik there is no key rollover story or recovery. I know it’s been discussed and I found this PR: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/637

KERI sounds interesting, I’ll read up on that. Maybe you can review that PR and share some insights?