2026-08-25T08:58:12Z https://nostr.ae Jeffrey Haas https://nostr.ae/npub15qlzhf20mxdvn4z0aza33tdlnka4j0fvt2wx4hjymzyj8d3xswdsd5c4kz https://files.a2mi.social/accounts/avatars/109/727/325/140/268/385/original/7a9f6d804ae242c1.jpg https://files.a2mi.social/accounts/avatars/109/727/325/140/268/385/original/7a9f6d804ae242c1.jpg https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs94vurgnmexxpr72c7ewfmr3ngxtgd8egc0z2yt9mqxsy2zv8370czyzsru2a9flve4jw5fl5tkx9dh7wmkkfa93dfc6k7gnvgjgaky6pekxkqz8x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrs38gsfk5ewyr94l4djp09mjj0d0gjmmyrfeuzsawx028624sjuq7aar0l'>nevent1q…ar0l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As someone that&#39;s about to go swimming in IETF for a week, I sympathize.<br/><br/>When I went reading through the activitypub specs a while ago, identity mechanisms were one of the things I had gone looking for and not found. PKI is where this stuff usually goes, and that&#39;s a very messy landscape. <br/><br/>At some point I was hoping to have time to go look at prior writing AP has been pondering for such things. 2026-07-12T17:43:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2t5w395ruvh3caye43hv48d2tasqrz7zxcudvp7hkrn5h33dg5tgzyzsru2a9flve4jw5fl5tkx9dh7wmkkfa93dfc6k7gnvgjgaky6pekfzf9ae In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq5w8z3nlauj5pkgcjxmggahwvppevnu30nytg3f8fvf89drn5cmcr0le5g'>nevent1q…le5g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This thread feels like it&#39;s missing a lot of context.<br/><br/>A key is just a key - it proves nothing. It can be used for signing operations.<br/><br/>By analogy, if you lose your passport, you don&#39;t stop being you. The government that issued your passport doesn&#39;t say you stop being you. You&#39;ve just lost a thing that helps with &#34;proving&#34; you are who you say you are - authentication.<br/><br/>The complexity in a lot of cryptography schemes is having to deal with lost/compromised keys: revocation. 2026-07-12T13:54:30Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8xaf5w09wp89c3jhs5thq98g6su3n33j25dxunmhnalcm66kjvgszyzsru2a9flve4jw5fl5tkx9dh7wmkkfa93dfc6k7gnvgjgaky6pekrgev6h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs80kcp6s3zfyaeeryxzqvz5vjc5skyzkr8g07d225k6dg2vap7eygnkxrcl'>nevent1q…xrcl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As a third generation protocol geek, I wish authentication had gotten baked in a bit better. But, as you point out, we didn&#39;t have PKC in the toolbox at the right time.<br/><br/>As for general symmetric encryption, it was certainly one part horsepower (even now), but it was also that crypto just makes fragile things even more so. I mean, it took years before TCP stack were hardened enough to not blow up on their own, much less when you added crypto 2026-01-21T00:28:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsge3sqjm4dtg94krclqeyjl2522f92jgw4q5ltc06c8fpunf70ykgzyzsru2a9flve4jw5fl5tkx9dh7wmkkfa93dfc6k7gnvgjgaky6pekv89mhe In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspmvgj27exss0c7unpse47vcujjpgvmcg0tevkuq2nhqgaveaytfqslrlmv'>nevent1q…rlmv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We should be so lucky that they reinvent threading as usenet text readers gave us. 2025-06-23T00:24:20Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0j7mzghwuma2zagsjmp55s5krnjmmg2fh5ka28cy88gjvc8gnceczyzsru2a9flve4jw5fl5tkx9dh7wmkkfa93dfc6k7gnvgjgaky6pekmjp7jx I&#39;ve been looking for alternatives to getting most of my print books from Amazon. I don&#39;t (yet) have a relationship with a local bookstore to try getting stuff local.<br/><br/>If I was wanting to borrow rather than buy, I&#39;d be talking to my local library.<br/><br/>For the U.S., have you found better online options for buying your books? Direct to publisher half the time ends up pointing me back to Amazon.<br/><br/>#bookstodon <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ny7qwqnkw6pg4m0uegzrdzwrckapzq7v7zku9p28hgv5aflvg8fq7zuv57" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>bookstodon group</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ny7…uv57</span>)</a></span> 2025-02-13T14:39:33Z