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Bug report: Pubkey is not displayed correctly on profile

Open Marc-Gee opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

Hi, I accused a nostr profile on Friday of being an imposter because her Pubkey didnt match to the genuine users [twitter] verification post, nor the nostr directory entries. However, it is I believe a Hamstr bug actually. . I discovered afterwards that my own pubkey on hamstr.to has the same issue. The beginning is correct, but the end characters are not!

As the example - The correct, verified, published npub1 key of Lyn Alden ends in "cw83a" : Screenshot LynAlden - Verified Pubkey

Her Hamstr.to Pubkey ends differently: Screenshot LynAlden - incorrect Pubkey showing source: https://hamstr.to/profile/npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a They are both in nPub1 format, not hex.

Snort.social shows her pubkey correctly. image

same issue exists with my pubKey also. and that is when I realized Lyn was not an imposter, but rather my client was giving bad output! image image

ie:My Pubkey ends in "ajsf0" and doesnt even contain the incorrect string "psmxu" image

Please can someone verify if i am doing / seeing something wrong? Accusing the authentic user of being an imposter, Wasnt fun. Lyn Aldens verification post is here: https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1626654795606986773

Thanks for your excellent nostr client!

Marc-Gee avatar Feb 19 '23 22:02 Marc-Gee