Replying to Avatar Léo Griffo ⚡🇧🇷⚡

I'm new to nostr and the whole decentralized world, so my question might be trivial.

When the time comes to change the device would you lose the network you built? Could you sign up to the new device with the same use name and still be verified?

One issue I see for less developed countries, like Brazil, is that cell phones are stollen all the time. It's not rare cases of people buying a new phone to have it stollen the next month. I device based identification would be very impractical for this scenarios.
Avatar
Léo Griffo ⚡🇧🇷⚡ 2y ago

I believe I wasn't clear sharing question.

I understand a little bit how it works now. I would like to understand what you are proposing.

For what I understood, each device can be logged in to one user and the user will be linked to that specific device. Is that correct? If that is the case, my previous question comes with that assumption.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

Avatar
Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

On the new idea, the nostr master key would generate a new key for every device. The user wouldnt be able to export it. When you change phones, people would be forced to rotate their keys for the DMs, not for the rest of nostr. Their profile stays the same, but messages go somewhere else.

If we then add private groups (nostr doesn't have this yet) we could add all device keys in the same "group" so that all your DMs can be seen by all your devices.

Avatar
Léo Griffo ⚡🇧🇷⚡ 2y ago

Got it! Thanks!