dikaios1517 on Nostr: If that was your intent, that is certainly not how it read. You insinuated that a ...
If that was your intent, that is certainly not how it read.
You insinuated that a signed message allows you to know "WHAT is true or fake." Not who. What. Which would naturally be understood as the content of the message, not the author of the message.
"A signed message needs no source. It IS the source!"
Most people need to post where they learned about something as their "source" of information because they are not the originator of the information. The fact that they signed their message containing the information does not eliminate them needing to provide the source of the information contained in their message.
You have overstated the case for cryptographically signed messages.
Indeed, before you can trust that ODELL (npub16n9…uhr9)'s private key is actually owned by ODELL (npub1qny…95gx), you will need some sort of outside verification. So you can't even know that a signed message came from the person you think it did, unless you have first verified that they are indeed in control of that private key and ONLY they are in control of it.
You insinuated that a signed message allows you to know "WHAT is true or fake." Not who. What. Which would naturally be understood as the content of the message, not the author of the message.
"A signed message needs no source. It IS the source!"
Most people need to post where they learned about something as their "source" of information because they are not the originator of the information. The fact that they signed their message containing the information does not eliminate them needing to provide the source of the information contained in their message.
You have overstated the case for cryptographically signed messages.
Indeed, before you can trust that ODELL (npub16n9…uhr9)'s private key is actually owned by ODELL (npub1qny…95gx), you will need some sort of outside verification. So you can't even know that a signed message came from the person you think it did, unless you have first verified that they are indeed in control of that private key and ONLY they are in control of it.