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Re: Why is Satoshi Nakamoto's PGP Key not currently on bitcoin.org ?
by
Carlton Banks
on 27/10/2020, 18:03:22 UTC
...snip...

An interesting read ...

New PGP key: RSA/RSA or DSA/Elgamal?
- https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/72581/new-pgp-key-rsa-rsa-or-dsa-elgamal

you're slightly proving my point here... PGP keys should have an expiry date, or at least the subkeys (of a master key) should. That's why people are asking questions like that on stackexchange.com, and Satoshi eventually almost certainly understood this too. You'd be quite unwise to trust Satoshi's PGP key  from 2008 alone when it's concerning such a significant person.

Not disputing that.  Smiley

Indeed that is why my list for accepting proof of the satoshi identity (cyrptographically) has five different points of empirical evidence.

well, Satoshi's key is in the repo for bitcoin.org: https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/79

but not on the actual https://bitcoin.org website (maybe try


for historical purposes, isn't that enough? Satoshi doesn't work on Bitcoin now, so really that part of Bitcoin's story is just that: an old part of the story