The entire issue with “key rotation” boils down to people thinking they’re celebrities and worrying about losing their “followers.” This is a symptom of believing that the influencer culture of algorithmic centralized social media translates to nostr. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t.
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My only concern is not loosing followers (which are almost none 😅) or whatever, is government or malicious actors impersonation. Of course the likelihood of me being a target is close to zero.
Most if us when we started the nostr journey we did it through a device or machine that likely could be compromise, and then again not all clients do best practices with nsec input.
I think is fair to say that there is potential for keys to be compromise from day 1. I am sure of my key back up and have no fear of loosing them, but if tomorrow they come after my faith or whatever belive I do fear impersonation. As I have seen in middle east, Venezuela, etc...I have no reason to belive any system I use is completely out of grab.
The internet is broken at a fundamental level starting with Domain providers and Internet providers.
I think a system with back up keys, to burn the original after a malicious attack could be beneficial, 100% on board on people learning to protect their keys, but this would make nostr even more censorship resistance....not sure if this is key rotation or not, just a thought.
nostr:npub1lrnvvs6z78s9yjqxxr38uyqkmn34lsaxznnqgd877j4z2qej3j5s09qnw5 my ideal scenario is that when you create your nsec, you are give lets say 5 more. in order to use any of the remaining 4 you need to burn the other one and input the one that are of have being burned.
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some one hack me and stole my nsec from my vault, took my hard note pad, or a client fail...I can input nsec#1 + nsec#2 and from that point on nsec#1 is not. usable any more... not sure how possible is that...but it will be nice.
Imagine being so deep in the matrix that you think your cryptographic keys are clout tokens. Bro, you’re not losing “followers” you’re just proving that decentralization doesn’t come with a built-in fan club.