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I am now %100 certain that I can build a permissionless, decentralized credential presentation and verification system.

In the example below, the only unencrypted channel is the visual invocation and acquisition of a #nauth presented as a QR code. Once acquired, the rest of the communication, including the request for, and presentation of a credential is done via negotiated encrypted channels.

The end user web apps (the UX front end of #safebox) only communicate to their own user; they do not directly communicate with one another. Actually, each app has no clue, nor cares where the other app is running. All inter-app communication is done in real-time using gift-wrapped encrypted messages.

It's the #nostr protocol that enables this. IMHO, the killer-app for #nostr is rather a killer-capability for every app tha wishes to securely communicate with any other app, so long as they have a #npub, and a pool of available relays.


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nostrich · 41w
The auth_relais tag might bring some form of centralization (if all of those relays are shut down or censored, the nauth key gets worthless, if I understand it. Maybe there needs to be some form of auth relay determination automatism (but it might be that this is over my head...)