ChipTuner on Nostr: > That is why NOSTR is great, has hundreds of volunteer relays that make difficult to ...
> That is why NOSTR is great, has hundreds of volunteer relays that make difficult to track incoming messages and dozens of different clients to retrieve them that are E2EE without cryptographic doubt.
Most public relays sync notes so private messages are extremely easy to track. You could just connect to one of the larger relays and listen for all notes by and npub hoovering all private dms. That's a massive hit to privacy. Gift wrapping helps, but does not guarantee this information won't get leaked when a single npub keeps requesting certain notes. On top of that if a client is using nip46 and possibly connected via relays, that same hoover can see when you attempted to decrypt a given note. Cloudflare proxying is also used for a majority of big relays. Most users will be connecting via clearnet and standard TLS connections leaking traffic and IP addresses.
We are still working on better ways of improving forward secrecy because I believe there is still a possibility of ciphertext attacks with as much data that is available for a given user.
Speaking as the author of the C reference for nip04 and 44 encryption.
Most public relays sync notes so private messages are extremely easy to track. You could just connect to one of the larger relays and listen for all notes by and npub hoovering all private dms. That's a massive hit to privacy. Gift wrapping helps, but does not guarantee this information won't get leaked when a single npub keeps requesting certain notes. On top of that if a client is using nip46 and possibly connected via relays, that same hoover can see when you attempted to decrypt a given note. Cloudflare proxying is also used for a majority of big relays. Most users will be connecting via clearnet and standard TLS connections leaking traffic and IP addresses.
We are still working on better ways of improving forward secrecy because I believe there is still a possibility of ciphertext attacks with as much data that is available for a given user.
Speaking as the author of the C reference for nip04 and 44 encryption.