Sneak preview: clipstr - A clipboard manager that lives on nostr!
I recently started transitioning from my Macbook to a Linux machine and the only thing I miss is a synchronised clipboard between my devices. This made working on multiple workstations and with my phone a breez!
Because I missed this so much I started having a clipboard text file that I synced between my devices using SyncThing, but it was not the real deal. Then I realised that I already work with the perfect syncing layer every single day... nostr!
clipstr uses nostr events to your clipboard registry. It can set or get entries and print them to stdout, meaning you can easily pipe them into your OS' native clipboard when desired.
Because it is build on nostr, it is easy to add GUI clients or access the registry through a browser.
I did not get to polish and release it. But I wanted to share a demo regardless. Wdyt?
https://blossom.primal.net/2ccc64d2b1afba12b3eb202bf3697d6976f7b22e174ddac536577f4448928121.mov
This is awesome! I was thinking of doing something similar with Iroh. I was discourage just because I wanted it to work with mobile.
I love that this is way easier to solve with nostr.
- are you using ratchet encryption for this? I would think that keeping the clipboard data safe is extra important
- do this events have an expiration date?
I am by no means a security expert. I will definitely add a disclaimer about this haha.
It uses nip44 encryption.
Right now no expiration date, but I want to make this a daemon and the daemon could check if the expiration is reached and overwrite the data. I am not sure if relays honor the timestamp. However someone might still copy the data while it is available. Getting the encryption right is crucial in this case
I think nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qqsy2ga7trfetvd3j65m3jptqw9k39wtq2mg85xz2w542p5dhg06e5qmhlpep has a library for ratched encryption. You might want to look at that
