mikedilger on Nostr: The risk of leaking your nsec is FAR greater than anything NIP-17 improves upon. ...
The risk of leaking your nsec is FAR greater than anything NIP-17 improves upon. NIP-17 / NIP-44 are not a panacea, and the end user message should be that it is a minor technical change, and 99% of their security comes with handling their nsec properly.
Not leaking metadata is an improvement (except the relay taking the message knows something).
The technical encryption algorithm changes probably make no practical difference for a long time yet.
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2024-04-26 07:52:10Event JSON
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