It's not to prove who you are, it's to prove that you are in the "trusted" group. I'm asking if you can prove you're in the trusted group some other way, like decrypting some message that only someone with a trusted npub could, and sending them the content of the message back.
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Decryption is the inversion of signatures. In that case because it has to be encrypted using your npub that would still leak your identity. I guess my consideration is, is AUTH any worse than requesting my kind0 data from the server? Thats what I'm trying to understand
It wouldn't accomplish any obfuscation, unless you were one of many, like 20+.
So basically issuing a noise protocol for message data. I suppose that could be done with proxies as some sort of aggregation. I think we're still fighting the war of my IP may be linked to my npub and were fighting networking protocols here.
I was just wondering if there was some One Neat Trick that would assuage the worries of people like nostr:npub15qydau2hjma6ngxkl2cyar74wzyjshvl65za5k5rl69264ar2exs5cyejr , while still allowing us to control access.
Cuz I think the future might be all relays using AUTH.