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I don't think you can say "this is complete nonsense" and "this has since been fixed" in the same comment. Also: don't use ECC signatures as MACs. Signatures are not MACs.
He says "this is complete nonsense" specifically about the statement quoted. Not about the whole report.
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With "impossible" you mean you can't use Tor Browser and fire up Robosats to buy Bitcoin via Revolut or Wise?
What if I need to buy something on Coinbase Commerce?
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It is noteworthy that zapps are based on lightning (which is Layer-2 for bitcoin), and similar in privacy as monero (and instantaneous).
Does lightning work now? A few years ago, I remember they had quite some difficulties. Maybe I should brush up my knowledge.
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That's more or less how nostr works, except instead of websites there are notes (a generic type which can be anything - including website content), and instead of servers there are 'relays'.
Yeah the more I read about it, the more it does sound somewhat similar to what I was proposing. However, the copywriting there is not in this vein at all. IMO the metaphor of personal websites is a simple, universal one that most people can understand. Nostr seems unintelligible to anyone that isn't pretty technical.
The issue with all of these open social protocol is that they fail to grasp that they are built for entertainment, and hence the modulated emotional reactions are a feature not a bug.
>apolitical communication commons Some people say that labeling yourself apolitical is 1, a polticial statement 2, a privilege itself which puts you into a certain socio-political position
"apolitical communication commons" So, for center-right users.
Hope this doesn't come accross as rhetorical, it's a genuine question! Nostr users, how does this differ in your experience from Mastodon? At first glance it seems like the same idea but with the extra ingredient of blockchain, I'm not sure what this adds though, anonymity?
>Nostr doesn't subscribe to political ideals of "free speech"
Under a tag that says “pro-censorship”.
I think I could maybe (?) imagine what they’re trying to say there, but “a lack of censorship is political and the presence of censorship is apolitical” sounds like something a person would say after a humongous bong rip of salvia or sustaining a life-threatening amount of blood loss
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So, I was part of the Nostr community for quite a while and was the author of a popular Nostr extension for Safari, before eventually giving up on Nostr for various reasons. I haven't read that entire paper. Mainly, I skipped to the section you mention here: > The event protocol that drives the system doesn't authenticate public keys, so asymmetric signatures are performative: attackers that can intercept messages (N…
If you read the entire paper you'll see that the paper presents a formalized set of security goals that acknowledge Nostr uses public keys as identities. They haven't misunderstood the system. Meanwhile: the cryptography is obviously unsound: it relies on unauthenticated CBC, and signatures that aren't verified, and provides attackers with the ability to coerce users into following links.