Can we build a Nostr-native onion routing for private events using DVMs?

Each onion hop is a GiftWrap using an Ephemeral event kind encrypted to the next onion DVM. The client assembles all hops and sends the private message to the first DVM via the user's main relay. That DVM decrypts the ephemeral event and sends it to the next DVM. The last DVM will send it to the user.

This minimizes the user's IP leakage to the set of trusted relays that user likes while sustaining the relay decentralization properties of NIP-65.

User's would never connect directly to the read relays of other users because they might not be trusted.

Since the relay knows your Nostr filters, it does know which pubkeys you are interested in (including your own key). Decoupling sending an event to a pubkey and filtering events for your pubkey in the same connection/IP is key to reducing the power that the relay has over you.

This would be akin to using several Tor sessions, a new session for every new message you send, while giving the Client the power to choose different "exit" nodes (DVMs) at each new message.

Am I crazy or is this actually better?

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Linux distros for dummies

A Linux distribution is a similar concept to a phone’s app store. It allows you to download software that’s pre-vetted. This reduces the chance that it’s malware and allows the different dependencies to work together to reduce redundancy. However, you MAY optionally get software OUTSIDE of the package manager and directly from the software’s developer, through universal systems such as Flatpak, AppImage, or Snaps.

If you get software from OUTSIDE the package manager, then you’ll have double dependencies which takes up space and causes some minor delay in starting up the program. Many in the Linux community argue and debate over if the delay, space, and security issues matter, or if it’s more important to have software that works across distributions and is released faster. The delay on Snaps is worse than others, leading SOME to criticize Ubuntu which heavily uses them. This is why Mint is a fork of Ubuntu but WITHOUT Snaps. Others point out that without universal package managers, it can take YEARS for new software to make it to distributions with slower release cycles such as Ubuntu and Mint.

A Linux distribution is NOT the way Linux LOOKS. That’s the desktop environment! So if you like a distro’s software, you can swap it for any other desktop environment than the default. For example Linux Mint’s “Cinnamon flavor” look, could be put on Debian or anything else! At the end of the day, distros DON’T matter that much and anything is better than Windows… even snaps =)

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I try to stack enough meat and cheese on it so I'm not just eating mostly bread.

Tacos sound good, but I just brought a lame ass sammich to work.

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