This study examines Nostr relays, detailing architecture, message-forwarding semantics, concurrency model, and empirical scalability under load, highlighting operational strengths, bottlenecks, and mitigation strategies.
This study analyzes Nostr relay design and functionality, focusing on message routing, concurrent client handling, throughput under load, and empirical evaluation of scalability and failure modes.
This study evaluates the Nostr protocol client as a decentralized architecture, examining key management, message encryption, and privacy-security trade-offs, and proposing targeted improvements for resilience.
An academic overview of the Nostr protocol, evaluating its decentralized architecture, key management, messaging model, and the security, privacy, and censorship-resistance implications.
Nostr implements a minimal, relay-based messaging protocol anchored on public-key identities. This study evaluates its cryptographic guarantees, privacy trade-offs, decentralization limits, and censorship resistance.
This article analyzes Nostr’s decentralized architecture, cryptographic key management, and messaging protocols, assessing security guarantees, privacy trade-offs, and resilience against censorship.
This article defines the Nostr client architecture, detailing its decentralized relay model, cryptographic key management, and message encryption; it evaluates security trade-offs and proposes enhancements for privacy and resilience.
The Nostr relay is a network node that stores and forwards cryptographically signed events between clients. This component enables decentralized, real‑time distribution and subscription-based retrieval of messages.
This article surveys the Nostr protocol as a decentralized messaging system, assessing its distributed architecture, censorship resistance, user data ownership, and implications for governance of online communication.
The Nostr protocol client exemplifies a decentralized messaging model, analyzing its distributed relay architecture, cryptographic key management, and encryption practices to assess privacy and security trade-offs.