Replying to Avatar sommerfeld

I don't know why no one thought of a PGP-nostr bridge so far. The social features of nostr seem perfect to share and trust pgp public keys.

bUT whY nOt jUsT uSe nOStR native cryptography? Well, because pgp is still ubiquitous and wildly used in e2e email, in software distribution, darkweb, etc.

The same way we set lnaddresses, in our kind0 metadata, we can set a field for a pgp pubkey. No need for weird keyservers or DNS and webserver dependent WKD. Just query nostr relays.
Avatar
average_bitcoiner 1y ago

I think nostr:npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9 was looking into it?

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

Avatar
franzap 1y ago

nostr:npub16r0tl8a39hhcrapa03559xahsjqj4s0y6t2n5gpdk64v06jtgekqdkz5pl agree with you and I did think about it: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1182

Avatar
sommerfeld 1y ago

Amazing! NIP looks generic enough, now we only need proper tooling and integrations

Avatar
franzap 1y ago

Thanks! Will make a PR to NIP-39 where it apparently belongs

Avatar
Crusty 👨‍💻 1y ago

This also came to my mind to integrate something like this to my email aliases over nostr, to send through alias with pgp. I guess, the same hurdle is there for trad emails, but over nostr it could detect if the other email is also a nostr email.

But first, I have to get the basics up and running.