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What about allowing subkeys in nip-05?

then you say subkey user@host is that same as masterkey user@host

{

"names": {

"_": "de7ecd1e2976a6adb2ffa5f4db81a7d812c8bb6698aa00dcf1e76adb55efd645"

},

"subkeys": {

"_": ["63788a374051653757367fd221bbf9c1b5c68bacc60ac45daa0b5877c6baf49c"]

}

}
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daniele 2y ago

What could be the use?

I see on the horizon one of the criticism that plagued NIP-26: the clients need to merge more keys in the visualization.

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Melvin Carvalho 2y ago

Yes, that was an issue with NIP-26

I want to use subkeys for all sorts of things. For example games, a step counter, how much water I drink. I dont necessarily want all these things to be in my personal feed.

But I do want relays to know that it's a legit account related to me. And then I can also protect my master key.

I could also have workers or bots under my control that help me, talk to DVMs, do sub tasks and so on.

Most clients already use NIP-05 so they can safely ignore subkeys. But the ones that do can have an extra bit of verifcation without adding more complexity.

LMK if any of that makes sense...