schematic of how NWS works
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this looks more like nostor to me. 🤔
more anon relays will be needed.
i am happy to serve until lawyer headaches start 🫡
can i pay lawyers with cashu? 😂
I’m not this smart enough to understand this, please excuse the silly question.
What is the benefit of implementing this?
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Interesting. So NWS is kind a Node ‘intermediary’?
This isn't great for privacy. Tor is much better and safer.
What's cool about this is that you can host web applications without a domain or public IP and the fact that clients can use this without additional software if they can talk to nostr, or a simple socks5 proxy if they can't.
You can host a website or some other low-bandwith service and make it reachable with an npub instead of an IP or DNS.
maybe i should run relays behind nws 😂
I don't fully uderstand the part on the middle of the scheme with those nostr relays, does that mean that each traffic/packet coming from the proxy is "encapsulated" into nostr events that are then read by NWS exit nodes?
So basically we have HTTPS traffic into nostr events and then back to HTTPS traffic again?
would caddy/apache/nginx be the reverse proxy in this diagram or would the NWS exit node have the reverse proxy built into it?
yes, a reverse proxy like that can be the "some service" in this diagram and terminate https and pass over to an http backend. that's what's happening in the demo with the mint.
there is still the issue of the SNI which needs to be overwritten by the exit node for backends like caddy to accept them. some reverse proxies seem to be fine with it, others aren't.
that schematic is a work of art
Right… with blossom, tho, it’s possible to have static data replicated, tho, right? Doesn’t help with anonymity per se, but does make the data anti-fragile.
So if the data in question was executable code - a script maybe - and then paired with a similarly distributed database (like SQLite)… you could have the beginnings of a distributed app. The database just needs to be filled with CRDTs that can be merged however…
Yeah… if I’m understanding this correctly, you could use this as an address scheme to a distributed app.
can someone compare the architecture diagrams of NWS and Tor?
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Yes, but it’s on TCP level so any (encrypted) protocol could run over it, not just HTTPS.
For anyone looking for a comparison to TOR, as far as I understand it:
It’s comparable to the TOR hidden services that can be reached by onion addresses. Here we have the nostr npub to address a service.
Since both entry and exit node only connect to relays, they are the only part that needs to be publicly reachable. Services can run behind firewalls on machines that are not reachable from the outside.
But it’s not like TOR in term of being an anonymous browsing tool for any website. It’s (currently) only for exposing a single service in a censorship resistant way.
So a device on a network can be found through an npub instead of an IP?
What’s the difference? Isn’t an IP just an arbitrary number anyway?
I still don’t think I understand the benefit. Especially since the goal of a key pair is to sign things with the secret key. Are these devices signing data they transmit?
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At the end bitcoiners will end up laying down intercontinental internet submarine cables, satellite systems and what not. Internet is centralized from the infrastructure layer and Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and the likes will use their power to surveil, censor and abstract more power.
Is every TCP packet wrapped in its own ephemeral nostr event?
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great summary plus you can expose already multiple services, not only one
Better to make relays dns/directory for nip19 rather than proxies to http.
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Why not make Nostr mints or SimpleX mints
Or is it similar ?
Now explain in terms of Nostr and SimpleX architecture ?
So simple, love it. Thank you for your work 🤙🫡
@Keychat client can connect to serve with npub address, not dissclose the IP
You are truly one creative individual
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