Sunset soon...

GN

For the non-techies I am now calling a signed #nostr event a “Portable Durable Record”, or PDR, so it sounds boring and similar to “PDF”, or “Portable Document Format” View quoted note →

Creating the event id based on the digest of the following is the core genius of #nostr. In one fell swoop, binding together the author, semantics and content, the digest of which is uniquely identified for time immemorial. [ 0, <pubkey, as a lowercase hex string>, <created_at, as a number>, <kind, as a number>, <tags, as an array of arrays of non-null strings>, <content, as a string> ]

Today’s institutions obsess over verification while quietly neglecting the harder problem: endurance. Organizations ask whether a claim can be checked, but not whether it can survive—whether it can be carried across platforms, outlast vendors, resist erasure, and still speak with authority when everything around it has changed. What matters is not that a record can be verified once, but that it can be produced again and again, by its holder, without permission, without translation, and without institutional scaffolding. Verification answers Is this true? Durability answers the more dangerous question: Who can still act when the system that issued the answer is gone? More on this in 2026. #thingsincontrol

GN

#emacs

Verify. Accept.

A simple acceptance model: Assert. Attest. Recognize.

GitHub

safebox/docs/ACCEPTANCE-MODEL.md at dev-verify · trbouma/safebox

Nostr SafeBox. Contribute to trbouma/safebox development by creating an account on GitHub.

GN

Making great progress on developing a generic verification and web of trust capability for #nostr #safebox @nosfabrica #hackathon

‘Are you PQC-ready?’ ‘Yes. And so is my 32TB publicly accessible legacy database stored in the clear, protected by a 16 character password.’

Very cool! View quoted note →

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