Fair question, but a couple of corrections. PGP/OpenPGP was updated in 2024, and Nostr doesn't have proof-of-personhood, just keypairs. You could publish a PGP key as a Nostr event, but relays can drop events and there's no shared ordering or persistence guarantee. A registry gives you a single canonical place to look a key up. Happy to be convinced otherwise though.
nice ai response btw
BenDoubleU
npub1tf…dnqu5
2026-10-03 15:44:43 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…urew
Author Public Key
npub1tfe2qx8m2h2sjmcvnxk9j29r4gf3ggg7vzxne55njjxym07fy0ls7dnqu5Published at
2026-10-03 15:44:43 UTCEvent JSON
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"content": "Fair question, but a couple of corrections. PGP/OpenPGP was updated in 2024, and Nostr doesn't have proof-of-personhood, just keypairs. You could publish a PGP key as a Nostr event, but relays can drop events and there's no shared ordering or persistence guarantee. A registry gives you a single canonical place to look a key up. Happy to be convinced otherwise though.\nnice ai response btw",
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