Aren't we trusting the operator of each hop in the current world?

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We are. And we shouldn't be.

What can we do about it besides encrypting and/or signing messages?

I don't think there is a solution for IP without pubkey cryptography. There are too many third-parties to interfere.

DNS is a lot easier thought. I'd love to get to your website by typing nostr://`d-tag`.npub1.../ in the browser. You can just keep d-tag -> IPs in a replaceable event.

"Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. It can operate even with very high latency and extremely low bandwidth. Reticulum allows you to build wide-area networks with off-the-shelf tools, and offers end-to-end encryption and connectivity, initiator anonymity, autoconfiguring cryptographically backed multi-hop transport, efficient addressing, unforgeable delivery acknowledgements and more."

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum

A private connection with an alert message to approve or deny?!

sarebbe bello avere un feed conversazione come questa nota

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