I want a vanity key but I don’t wanna make a new account ☹️
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i envision a way in the future for an old pubkey to delegate a new pubkey, kind of tie them together in the network.
i could have sworn i heard people talking about it before on here.
#[2] am i smoking crack or is this possible
Is it NIP26?
Yes. On that track. I think nip 26 is like if you have your keypairs stored away, in a device or signing device and don't to pull it out to sign each event/note. So you delegate a different keypairs you created to sign on your behalf.
Think an organization has a master pubkey for social media or whatever.
They can delegate with the master key, other keypairs for user to post in their behalf. Think if you hire a new employee you don't give them master keypairs you sign a dleegstion allowing their keypairs to sign for the organization. And i assume you can revoke as easily as you can grant access.
The other thing would entail your old pubkey having some flag recognized by the relays to include your new pubkey content in quietes for your old pubkey. So your old followers would get your notes w/o even having to refollow.
Like I said not sure if possible. Not a super technical guy, just enough to know I don't know enough.
NIP-26 keys I think are limited to 30 days, in which they expire... might be tedious to renew.
well thats kinda the point right?
you seem to understand the technicals a bit better than I.
something like this feasible with nip 26 in its current form? #[2]
Yeah, in some cases.
However, it looks like the 30 days was part of the `created_at` conditions, and is configurable. You can also create `conditions` for the `kind` of events.
So it could be used, I think, similar to subkeys in GPG.
Organizational use can be another case, as described. However I didn't see anything about revoking, outside of the `conditions`.
Thanks for your response! Get zapped
There is NIP-26 with delegated signing.
I felt the same way but I bit the bullet and did it.
You'll get the followers back quickly, don't sweat it.
This is one of the reasons I've been pushing for cross signing private keys. That way we can rotate keys and 'safely' inherit the old 'account'. Could use a pin system like Signal to help mitigate fraudulent signing maybe.
Could be as simple as entering your new privat key into the client and then using your pin code to do all the fancy stuff.
How would cross signing work?
I think one priv key songs off on multiple pub keys at once
Been staying at a beach resort for the weekend ☀️ Sorry for the late reply!
Cross signing keys works by the old key signing (nsec..) the new key. This proves the owner of the old key knows the new key owner. Then the new key signs the old key. This shows 3rd parties that the new key is definitely associated with the old key owner. But what if someone steals your old key? This is why a pin code should be necessary for signing. People forget PIN codes so your client should ask you for it periodically like Signal does. It can be done locally. If you forget your PIN code then the only functionality lost is the ability to cross sign keys. Also a revocation certificate could be made in case someone steals your account and starts impersonating you. That's another story! Getting back to my pina colada 🧉 Have fun guys 💜
Jealous 👀🍹🍹🏝️
Back to the coal mines on Monday
Coal mines👀 you must be close by 😅🧡
Not really! I'm up north in NC visiting friends and family!
Ohhhh. I live in WV so coal mines are everywhere 😅 beautiful pic btw. Enjoy the beach. It’s def my fav place to relax 🏝️🍹
They actually do have real coal mines in West Virginia 😅 In a way Si is kind of close i C. At least on an atomic level 😜 We're heading out to a steakhouse. I'm in the back seat a bit tipsy trying to find the keys on my phone ☺️ Back to Palm Beach FL Sunday. I'll have plenty of time for #nostr then 🧉🍹
Do you know how to actually do that?
To rotate keys? Yeah I do it once a year with my gpg keys. It doesn't need to be as complicated as gpg though. Just make a new key pair. Copy paste your new private key into the client. Enter your PIN code and the magic happens in the background. Needs to be grandma proof.
I meant like code it so it’s possible to do it on one of the clients.
Don't think I've ever written anything in Kotlin. It looks pretty self-explanatory. Time is my biggest issue. Also protocal developers will need to make a framework first. Ideas are cheap. Everyone has a billion of them. Applying ideas now that's what counts. Anyway dinner just got put in my face 🍹🍸 Yummy!!
