Many people are curious about the difference between Keychat and White Noise. Keychat encrypts one-to-one chats and small groups with the Signal protocol, while large groups use MLS encryption. White Noise, by contrast, encrypts every message solely with MLS. Think of each message as a letter: both Keychat and White Noise rely on OpenMLS to encrypt the content inside. The main distinction lies in the envelope—the format of the recipient address and how that address rotates. For large-group messages, Keychat adopts exactly the same envelope as a Nostr direct message (NIP-17), blending the traffic so thoroughly that an outside observer cannot distinguish a Keychat message from a Nostr DM. Why does Keychat choose the Signal protocol over MLS for one-to-one chats? Because Signal’s ratchet advances more frequently than MLS’s, providing stronger post-compromise security. Could Keychat’s large groups interoperate with White Noise’s groups in the future? Quite possible—after all, the two are already 90 % identical. View quoted note →

Games drive livestreaming.

Firechat —> Briar —> Bitchat View quoted note →

“What are you doing? Playing games?” “Actually, I’m browsing notes.”

Flappy Nostrich is to Keychat what Angry Birds was to the iPhone. View quoted note →

In Keychat, you can set an ID to be only a Chat ID, only a Browser ID, or both a Chat ID and a Browser ID. Currently, if you log in to Keychat with your microblog ID and set it as your Chat ID, you can receive Nostr DMs (nip4 or nip17) in Keychat when someone sends them to you. However, Keychat does not support replying to messages via nip4. We are still considering how to improve this.

If you encounter the login issue shown in the screenshot below, please click “Clear Local Data” on the settings page. View quoted note →

If you want to log in to the Mini App with a different ID, remember to log out of the currently logged-in ID first, as shown in the screenshot below.

In Keychat, your ID is only involved during the friend-adding process, which is the sole step that requires your ID’s nsec. Once two people have added each other, their messages are encrypted with keys derived from the Signal protocol, and a fresh key is used for every message. Even if your nsec is leaked, neither your past nor future Keychat messages will be exposed, because the encryption keys are independent of the nsec. View quoted note →

Flappy Nostrich is the Keychat Mini Game we’ve been looking forward to. View quoted note →

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Need more practice 😂 View quoted note →

[Cashu + Ark or Spark + Lightning] wallet View quoted note →