Jeff Martin on Nostr: I also took advantage of the protocol breakage for this application-level keep-alive ...
I also took advantage of the protocol breakage for this application-level keep-alive to make some other protocol changes too.
SmolWeb URLs (and DNS records) can now embed identity key rotation information to give a little better security should an identity ever need to have its keys rotated (say, after a compromise). Now it should be a little harder for an unwitting guest to accept an old compromised host identity should a beacon server ever become malicious and start passing out the wrong identities.
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2024-11-17 17:25:37Event JSON
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