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Re:Spiral’s Homomorphic Encryption – Is This the Future of P... by olah_1 on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:58AM (#33694818)
This could be used with Nostr[1] to add a ton of privacy! The added privacy would even be a reason to pay for using the server.

As of now, a lot of privacy is lost when you actually look at Nostr events. There are servers that check to see if a user has paid before they execute the request too[2].

1: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

2: https://github.com/fiatjaf/expensive-relay

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Re:Spiral’s Homomorphic Encryption – Is This the Future of P... by blintz on Monday November 21, 2022 @03:41PM (#33697634)
Yeah, we think private lookup could make distributed retrieval protocols like IPFS, BitTorrent, etc significantly more private. Currently, they are in some ways much worse from a privacy perspective than centralized alternatives, since they involve broadcasting information about each retrieval to a large number of peers; the ability to do private lookups could really help fix this.
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