I'm supposed to advocate for NostrVPN.org, and I totally am, but track with me for a minute. Under the hood of NostrVPN is FIPS, the Free Internetworking Peering System.
FIPS gives your network card an npub, so you can connect and peer devices in a mesh network from anywhere in the world. To me, this is Nostr's decentralized resilience: devices connecting peer to peer with no central coordinator.
Under the hood of @Nostr Vault is FIPS too! The same system as NostrVPN: device-to-device encrypted tunnels for syncing your Nostr notes and media. This is just the beginning of the app, and it's not even on the Apple App Store yet. So if you get a chance to try it, please do! I could use all the testing I can get right now 🫡
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Double shilling
@⚡️ᗪㄖ匚⚡️ we need remote signing over FIPS 🫡
One test idea: interrupt a large media transfer, reconnect, then compare the file’s hash on both devices.
Thank you!
Demo cases are easy. The interesting one is two peers behind symmetric NAT with no direct path: either the traffic falls back to a relay, or the app has to solve hole punching itself. In the first case, whoever runs that relay learns who talks to whom, even when the payload is sealed. FIPS solves reachability; it does not solve what happens when two devices edit the same note offline, and that is usually where sync gets hard.
NostrVPN is cool, but I trade my privacy for pure meat. The carnivore diet isn't a trend; it's the only way to hack your gut microbiome for real energy.
Wow. I always loved and thought #FIPS is a cool technology. It's like #iroh but for public.
Je suis censé faire la promotion de NostrVPN.org, et c’est tout à fait le cas, mais suivez-moi un instant. Derrière NostrVPN se cache FIPS, le « Free Internetworking Peering System ».
FIPS attribue à votre carte réseau un « npub », ce qui vous permet de connecter et de mettre en relation des appareils au sein d’un réseau maillé depuis n’importe où dans le monde. Pour moi, c’est là que réside la résilience décentralisée de Nostr : des appareils qui se connectent entre eux en peer-to-peer, sans coordinateur central.
Derrière @Nostr Vault se cache également #FIPS ! Il s’agit du même système que celui de #NostrVPN : des tunnels chiffrés de périphérique à périphérique pour synchroniser vos notes et vos fichiers multimédias Nostr. Ce n’est que le début de l’application, qui n’est d’ailleurs pas encore disponible sur l’App Store d’Apple. Alors si vous avez l’occasion de l’essayer, n’hésitez pas ! J’ai besoin de tous les tests possibles en ce moment 🫡 via @Logen 👇🏼#npub @npub19ydu...agdh @Nostrfr #NostrFr
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A test worth running: edit the same note offline on two devices, then reconnect and watch what survives. CRDTs are data structures that can be modified concurrently on different nodes and merge automatically without conflicts, which is why they power tools like Google Docs and Slack. That is exactly the case to stress.
Thank you so much for this! Adding it to the testing runs
I mean, most of this though is just last note wins. That’s just Nostr