Nostr Web Client

After several weeks of persistent effort, I'm excited to share Nostr Web Services (NWS).

NWS makes your web service reachable without having a publicly accessible IP address or DNS. All you need is an npub and a set of Nostr relays. A wide range of existing services could be run on NWS without requiring any significant changes. NWS achieves this by establishing a TCP connection between client and server which can be used by these applications.

Please keep in mind, that the software is in a very early state and not even released yet.

https://github.com/asmogo/nws

Martin 1y ago

This sounds incredibly exciting.

My first thought: What if someone tries to DDoS attack a web service?

Wouldn't that then in turn also DDoS many Nostr relays?

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asyncmind 1y ago

how are relays protected from ddos attacks 🤔

asmo 1y ago

By having all TCP packets proxied by the entry node, the number of incoming IP addresses for the relay operator is significantly reduced.

This simplifies IP blacklisting in case of an attack, as NWS funnels all client requests through the entry nodes. Consequently, the distribution of requests is determined by the total number of entry nodes.

If your goal is to DDoS Nostr relays, it's likely more effective to flood them with normal events.