thor on Nostr: to understand how Nostr is able to function without signing up for accounts anywhere, ...
to understand how Nostr is able to function without signing up for accounts anywhere, it's really useful to understand public key cryptography, a.k.a. asymmetric cryptography. the main way of doing that is the RSA algorithm. Bitcoin uses secp256k1 elliptic curve cryptography instead, which is considered to be more future-proof since it's more resilient to quantum computer attacks.
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"content": "to understand how Nostr is able to function without signing up for accounts anywhere, it's really useful to understand public key cryptography, a.k.a. asymmetric cryptography. the main way of doing that is the RSA algorithm. Bitcoin uses secp256k1 elliptic curve cryptography instead, which is considered to be more future-proof since it's more resilient to quantum computer attacks.",
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