Noob question … I’ve seen people share a string of characters as their PGP key
Is that the fingerprint? Is it safe to publicly share your fingerprint?
#asknostr
nostr:npub1tsrh6g3etzdahj0jgnvec86z0sqw7yhkcq9l578m4tyv8v5976yseatmmg nostr:npub164xgt7nysd3euvrdk0h6p7xxhulhnjnpmu0utzau86wf6859qn6srac0qx
What exactly did you see?
look at the profile of nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm4wfex2mn59en8j6f0qqsd2ny9lfjgxcu7xpkm8maqlrrt70meefsa78793w7ra8yar6zsfagh6ru3d
Yeah, that's the fingerprint. Unfortunately he doesn't write his public key, so the fingerprint alone is worthless. You cannot use it without the public key 😅
But with a quick web search, I found this website that seems to be his. And his public key is on it:
I suppose I could use his fingerprint to get his public key from a key server? But, which one??
Copy out his public key from his website and paste it into your pgp client.
I added my public key to https://pgp.mit.edu. How do I search myself? It asks for a string to search. What string?
I figured out how to search myself
I don't know. Keys.openpgp.org doesn't have it.
