NOSTR LONDON / nostr.london on Nostr: Good stuff ...

Good stuff

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I spent some time this week writing a new key rotation scheme for nostr:

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2114

I think it's pretty good for what it is (it improves on PABLOF7z (nprofile…cdh4)'s version by not requiring an arbitrary time delay). At the same time, it's riddled with very fragile assumptions about events being available, introduces a hard dependency on OTS (or some equivalent), and requires clients to constantly compute key validity.

At the end of the day, what I have learned is that we probably can't realistically do key rotation on nostr in the application layer — we need some kind of cryptographic magic or strongly consistent data store to make it happen. It still might be an interesting read for the nerds out there though.