Won’t the relay be able to know your pubkey? Which means there could be a centralizing point of failure on that?
Relay could be malicious and keep association between note and pubkey.
Not an expert, just curious!
Short history of a little crazy, and experimental relay: wss://mix.gzuuu.xyz
Last night, I was floating through cyberspace when an idea struck me. A note mixer relay - a simple yet intriguing concept. Essentially, it's a relay that accepts your notes, but instead of store them, it re-signs them with the relay's keys, effectively anonymizing and mixing your notes. This is the npub I'm using for this and where all mixed notes are published nostr:nprofile1qqs80keaa6v84ldnkne66q0qf96rvtf84aj27taw25x3appz83lqspgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp07t6hp6 .
This idea isn't entirely new, there was some exploration around group of people sharing an nsec. This is the case of nostr:nprofile1qqswgh9y2cz5qu5upzg5yn47m65t7d697k2dtufa9fq54af80dwng5sprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezucmgv95k6cfwd9hxvme0qyw8wumn8ghj7cn0wd68ytn0wfskuem9wdukuceww3jkx6p0ksrqpx, for example, it was created during sec01.
In summary, this note mixer relay will accept your notes, re-sign them with the relay's keys, and then publish them. Does this idea interest you, or does it make sense? Currently, anyone can publish to the relay, but I plan to implement a whitelist for pubkeys based on my contact list. This could also be integrated with a wot relay, allowing you to mix notes from your friends or entire social graph. Perhaps there are some interesting use cases to explore? 🤔
Just a heads up: be careful not to publish to multiple relays, as this will leak your original note, signed by you.
Won’t the relay be able to know your pubkey? Which means there could be a centralizing point of failure on that?
Relay could be malicious and keep association between note and pubkey.
Not an expert, just curious!
Yes, a malicious relay can do that, but you can spin up a new ephemeral pubkey and write with it, the result would be the same and you cannot correlate nothing