I agree with you that privacy and censorship resistance are not contradictory to each other. However I need to point out that keet/holepunch is *not* private

It is censorship resistant and does use encryption once a connection is established. However at its core its a holepunching library and the main way holepunching works is by broadcasting your IP address out to the wider internet so that other peers can attempt to connect to you

So, by design it exposes you IP address and by extension your location. Even though the contents of the channel is private. Its a lot like nostr DMs 😆

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Yes and no. As I understand it, not just anyone can see your IP. Only those you are intentionally connecting with. So it's not like kind4 DMs, where anyone can see exactly who is talking to who. And even your peer doesn't get your actual IP if you are connecting via a VPN according to nostr:npub1h5t3asu90f2x48rxtcqkjvwhza7m6kngs7vjyanx8xqyswc6es2s4645z5 who is much more familiar with the protocol than I could ever hope to be.

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