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Tim Bouma · 43w
Silly question - could NIP44 be used for encrypted media? I haven’t really dug into media yet. I expect to use blossom but only if I can encrypt. For #nostr #safebox I am thinking of defining an en...
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Here's how I'm doing it: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1947

This approach is based on some stuff in NIP 17 for sending encrypted media. Basically, encrypt the file, upload it to blossom, and send the decryption key in a message along with the URL. I think this works great. I don't know why in particular it doesn't use NIP 44 (maybe @Vitor Pamplona can elucidate). But aes-gcm is pretty standard web crypto, so not hard to use. For your use case, you might look at defining a new event kind for "encrypted media" in NIP 94.
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Tim Bouma · 43w
Thanks! I’ll be gearing up for this in the coming weeks.