JeffG on Nostr: It's just an added protection against an attacker being able to observe traffic and ...
It's just an added protection against an attacker being able to observe traffic and understand message lengths. Like
mleku (npub1fjq…leku) said, it's not a block cipher so it doesn't need to always be of a specific length (to match the block).
Published at
2024-07-26 19:00:57Event JSON
{
"id": "2df9ea1451845c1a579840cb69bb345076387b16bfe15bd9d7cf1ff117e8115a",
"pubkey": "1739d937dc8c0c7370aa27585938c119e25c41f6c441a5d34c6d38503e3136ef",
"created_at": 1722020457,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"p",
"4c800257a588a82849d049817c2bdaad984b25a45ad9f6dad66e47d3b47e3b2f",
"",
"mention"
],
[
"e",
"8d7e2dc4adff164bec4d0cdf33b5c8ffd7f38e198bfadde648eabb7f80706789",
"wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net",
"root"
],
[
"p",
"036533caa872376946d4e4fdea4c1a0441eda38ca2d9d9417bb36006cbaabf58",
"",
"mention"
],
[
"p",
"70122128273bdc07af9be7725fa5c4bc0fc146866bec38d44360dc4bc6cc18b9"
]
],
"content": "It's just an added protection against an attacker being able to observe traffic and understand message lengths. Like nostr:npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku said, it's not a block cipher so it doesn't need to always be of a specific length (to match the block). ",
"sig": "4c35bddf58096dd3eccf8de625a8de2d088090d26416cf049900a78472e8e296b9ecf137ffb9c258c6bf5165b0f74de423505592f5a0e7fce9c52c70398fcf51"
}
