Would it make more sense to think about private keys and public keys as a "lock and key" ?
A public key is your "lock" in that it stays open and public facing, everyone can see it, people can mess with it but to do anything useful with it you need the "key", your private key, needed to "open" the lock.
I dunno, maybe that language just makes things more complicated than they already are. Naming is such an important part of knowing.
PacStandardTW / Pacific Standard
npub146…nw97p
2023-07-06 07:21:02
Author Public Key
npub1468p4ww9j74mc0mf676mh3gd5hk9cgas0zp4206j8tl69h9mfvcs9nw97pPublished at
2023-07-06 07:21:02Event JSON
{
"id": "4b32aa8a70124b0ace5f23f6867dc56c1c0f8b5f02cc3ed43d63c4d7324658b9",
"pubkey": "ae8e1ab9c597abbc3f69d7b5bbc50da5ec5c23b07883553f523affa2dcbb4b31",
"created_at": 1688620862,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [],
"content": "Would it make more sense to think about private keys and public keys as a \"lock and key\" ? \n\nA public key is your \"lock\" in that it stays open and public facing, everyone can see it, people can mess with it but to do anything useful with it you need the \"key\", your private key, needed to \"open\" the lock. \n\nI dunno, maybe that language just makes things more complicated than they already are. Naming is such an important part of knowing.\n ",
"sig": "63152d31b97c6ede8c211c4743ad07c999d7294bccbfe24e2007e50150403003a08307d57420416660ac161aff4bad777b45298be8b68e3545283a4f2d02898c"
}