Nice one. A good edge case example.
The answer is Alice cannot know which Day 2 post is real and neither can any Nostr client. CRI does not claim otherwise. What CRI guarantees is that the forgery cannot extend past the Day 3 rotation, cannot regain authority, and cannot affect future history.
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2025-12-16 21:14:26 UTC
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