I wish there were more info on how the Blind Relays work, but this is interesting; looking forward to reading more about it when it’s available
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Nostr is an option for the waitlist, plus this?
I'm intrigued.
It’s some MASQUE connect-ip based protocol. Message is encrypted to the blind relay, send to obscura (who can see only destination blind relay ip, not content) who forwards to relay where it is decapsulated and forwarded so the blind relay can’t see origin ip. All encapsulated in HTTP. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-masque-connect-ip/
That is crazy good site copy.
Thoughts on Apple’s private relay? Please excuse my ignorance 🤘🏼💜
This is conceptually exactly what Apple Private Relay does. But Apple only does it for select Apps at TCP and UDP layer. This is IP layer.
Apple Relay has some benefits. One example is b/c Apple will not allow IP location spoofing they get blocked a lot less.
I like Apple Private Relay but am definitely looking forward to a generalized solution like this.
From their discord:
Hmm... Where is the egress hop coming from? Isn't it also under their control?
They are on Nostr:
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