stat on Nostr: are nostr clients doing some type of signature verification for messages received ...
are nostr clients doing some type of signature verification for messages received from relays?
reason i ask; if a popular relay is hacked: what is to prevent an attacker from flooding that relay's subscribers with counterfeit messages?
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2023-02-20 00:34:29Event JSON
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"content": "are nostr clients doing some type of signature verification for messages received from relays?\n\nreason i ask; if a popular relay is hacked: what is to prevent an attacker from flooding that relay's subscribers with counterfeit messages?",
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