How does it fade against SimpleX?
What are strength and weaknesses of each approach?
How does metadata protection work vs Simplex?
When will we see full i2p integration, something that really would create a difference to all the other clearnet approaches?
because it on nostr its security guarentees are similar to Simplex, no?
most people use the default relays, but it's trivial to use your own.
you can spin up a new identity trustlessly.
in theory, the relays have little-to-no knowledge into the source and destination of messages.
generally similar security guarentees, no?
I know that SimpleX spent quite some time at designing its metadata protection protocol.
So I currently have doubts that other projects have looked at it with the same depth. It's something to easily fuck up or have wrong assumptions.
So - I wouldn't say that we're yet at the level of SimpleX - it's been in the works for much longer and you're right, they go to very extensive lengths to hide metadata.
The goal for nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet59uqzqawhxlp5wfr3q2wyfpmtxvxj9ppg3fp80x6erghdfk4pcmq8a7hhwp9puf is to get that far for sure though. Like nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn9qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqpqlxzaxzge0jq9u9cecucctdt5lslwgp7hcxmp2l0wn8r2ecjenwasfxlphq said, you can already create as many accounts on White Noise that you want - using throwaway keys/identities if you'd like.
We'll definitely be adding tor (and maybe i2p or ohttp) support next year too.
What relays can see at the moment is limited to:
1. A group with a given group_id value exists. (relay doesn't know how many people are in the group or who the people are - relay can see a relative amount of activity is all, e.g. are there lots of messages or few). These group_ids can rotate for each group AND groups can run multiple group_ids simultaneously to obfuscate that relative amount of activity too.
2. A given pubkey is enable to chat using the Marmot protocol (which is our protocol that underlies White Noise but can be used by any Nostr client). e.g. that a given user has a key package published.
That's all.
