nip44 doesn’t do anything to help or improve anything
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giftwraps are probably the best solution but they are clunky
they are not
NIP-42 is
if everyone ran their own relay
only use relays with NIP-42 enforcement for DMs, simple
the relay can already know your pubkey by linking it through your other REQs and your IP
you could also establish a key you use for DMs to a specific person and another to receive, and rotate this every so often
gift wraps are a client DoS vector and do nothing to actually obscure info from relays
Ok this is where I read about it, on Coracle
nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn how does nip44 improve metadata hiding?
It doesn't, but 59/17 do quite a lot through gift wrapping. Payload size, creation time, and all tags (including author) are hidden except for recipient, which can be obscured through key exchange.
If DM or encrypted data is so important and unique, why don't we just have a totally different format for it instead of following NIP-1 format? What if we design a better format for encrypted data from ground up?