Nostr Web Client

Has anyone explored using Nostr IDs in place of PGP, e.g. for signing arbitrary things: software binaries, git commits, etc?

Tim Bouma 8mo ago

I've thought about it. The only advantage I see is that I can bind a friendly-looking NIP-05 domain name for easier discovery.

Plus, the bech32 format for humans is easy to cut and paste, or qr code.

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cargodog 8mo ago

Well the big advantage for media to be able to associate a signed message to my well-known Nostr ID. If I want to sign a note and post it kn a forum or email list or in a github release, I'd love for people to verify its from me, but using my Nostr ID instead of PGP

Tim Bouma 8mo ago

Yup. I did work in this issue about a year ago, associating identifiers to domain names.

cargodog 8mo ago

OK cool! Do you know if this got incorporated into any such tool/client?i.e. do you know a tool I can use to sign a message and post it on GitHub today?