Nexus Link Desk Provenance, not popularity
Link Desk / Checking one

Current Nexus addresses

Three nodes, one platform behind them. Copy, never retype, and verify the signature when you arrive.

Node 01 nexusb2l7fmqnefwphyy7m5zjhlkytlbo7qbb5lu5dlczr3azgii2gyd.onion
Node 02 nexusma2iqgauqqvjcgds4ckv5xbf272tkfagq4epojjhsgleqpwxiqd.onion
Node 03 nexusabcd6tyfhdwilyitaqiri6tisj2v2hueyjuj6qkvd6azvi5tuqd.onion

An address that loads is not an address that is genuine. The check that settles it takes under a minute.

Checking a link

Everything else on this site explains why sources cannot answer the question. This section is the part that can.

Why the work moved to arrival

Nine source channels, and not one of them establishes key ownership. That is not a failure of curation, it is a property of what channels are. A channel carries text. Establishing that a party holds a key requires that party to demonstrate it, which can only happen at the destination.

The good news hiding in that is that it makes the job uniform. You do not need a policy for forums and a different one for directories and a third for links from friends. One check, run on arrival, works identically regardless of how you got there, which means the effort you were spending on choosing a better source is better spent here.

The simplificationOne check that does not care where you came from beats nine judgements about where you came from. This is the practical payoff of the entire site.

What the check establishes

Exactly two things, and they are narrow and absolute. That whoever produced a signature held the private key matching a specific public key. And that the signed text has not changed by a single character since. There is no partial credit and nothing probabilistic. Either the maths works or it does not.

Everything useful comes from chaining that to something you already trust, which is why the key comes first and why pinning a fingerprint is the step everything else rests on.

The four pages

Checking oneChecking a linkThe part that actually settles anything. Four pages.Checking oneReading an addressCompare the middle. That is where a forgery differs.Checking oneThe signature checkUnder a minute, and it is the only thing that settles anything.Checking onePinning a keyHalf an hour once, and every later check is mechanical.Checking oneLimits of a checkIt answers one question well and several others not at all.

How long this actually takes

Pinning a fingerprint is careful work you do once, and it takes maybe half an hour if you do it properly. Every check after that is mechanical and takes under a minute. That ratio is the reason the advice is worth following. The expensive part happens once and the repeated part is cheap.