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.
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.
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.
This analysis examines the Nostr relay architecture, detailing message forwarding, concurrency handling, and throughput limitations to assess its performance and implications for decentralized social systems.
This academic overview examines the Nostr protocol’s decentralized architecture, key-management and messaging protocols, and evaluates security properties, privacy trade-offs, and censorship-resistance implications.
This paper examines Nostr’s decentralized design, key management, and messaging protocols, analyzing security, privacy trade-offs, and implications for resilient, censorship‑resistant communication.
Watchtowers monitor Bitcoin payment channels for cheating, submitting evidence when needed to protect funds. They boost privacy and security without exposing users’ identities-key for off-chain scaling.
This article analyzes Nostr clients’ architecture, cryptographic key management, and privacy properties, evaluates threat models and vulnerabilities, and proposes mitigations to enhance censorship resistance.
This study examines Nostr’s decentralized relay-based architecture, assessing cryptographic key management, threat models, and privacy limitations, and proposing pragmatic enhancements to bolster censorship resistance and anonymity.
An analytical overview of the Nostr protocol relay, describing its architecture, message-forwarding behavior, concurrency model, and scalability under heavy traffic with empirical evaluation of strengths and limits.