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by pbronez 941 days ago
Does the Nostr community have an opinion on key management? The FAQ says:

“How do I find people to follow? First, you must know them and get their public key somehow, either by asking or by seeing it referenced somewhere.”

You can do a lot of cool things if you start by assuming everyone has a strong identity communicated via key pairs. The trick is managing those keys… discovery, validation, revocation, etc.

Keybase was (is?) amazing for this. They couldn’t figure out the business model though, and it’s a zombie since the Zoom acquisition. Keys.pub tried a more open implementation, but has been discontinued.

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https://github.com/withinboredom.gpg and replace the username. If they have commit signing configured, they have keys, and then they (probably) can decrypt with that key.
https://keyoxide.org/ seems to be successor to keybase.