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yes, the scheme that "leaks metadata" (both sides of the conversation). but it actually is required to make nostr DMs work. giftwraps the sender can't decrypt them unless they cache the one shot keys for the messages, which is a pretty major problem. the NIP-44 encryption is not better. there is no AES-NI extension for chacha20-poly1305 (AES=rijndael cryptographically secure pseudo random number generator CSPRNG). yes, on CPU, it's faster, but not faster than AES. i am going to be adding a nip-17/nip-04 based instant messaging client to the relay interface, which you can see my PoC instance here: https://relay./ mleku.dev the UI is pretty minimal and clunky at this point, there *is* a search filter for events but it's clumsy. i want to fix all these things. the relay also has a blossom server so a UI for user management of their image uploads will be possible also, and is the next thing i want after i get the search nicer and the DM client in there. maybe by next week i'll have the DMs working, and then i'm gonna see what nostr:npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h thinks of it :) the relay protects your privacy using *authentication* instead of obfuscation like giftwraps (one shot encryption keys using ECDH with the recipient's pubkey).