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There’s no way to utilize nip5 for any sort of verification. For it to be useful, you have to know people’s nostr address. Scammers can register a free one and still look legit to someone who has no idea what that person’s actual nostr address is.

I think Nostur has the best solution in place with impersonator tag

daniele 1y ago

I know it is for identification, except for rare cases, in fact few weeks ago I updated NIP-05 to clarify that.

And that is precisely why there is no point in showing it everywhere, especially if it is invalid. The point is to simplify the interface (I know, I won you over here, haha) and avoid exposing a detail that is unnecessary and may indeed be confusing.

Intead in the profile, with a proper explanation, it can be useful to debug misconfigurations or have a clearer idea about what the profile is trying to do.

What is this impersonator tag?

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HoloKat 1y ago

https://nostrdesign.org/docs/how-to/impostor-prevention/

daniele 1y ago

Interesting approach, but it seems resource intensive (calculate images hashes or similarities for all the social graph is heavy) and I suspect it can be quite fragile. Probably WoT is quicker and safer. Btw, NIP-05 is not involved here, even if it can be used to compose the final score.

HoloKat 1y ago

This was before wot