Peter Todd on Nostr: The thing is with keys alone you're not proving that data was created by an _device_. ...
The thing is with keys alone you're not proving that data was created by an _device_. But rather, just by a key. That by itself doesn't mean anything. To actually prove something about a device is a difficult key validation problem.
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