Ben Pate 🤘🏻 (npub17gq…8hhz)
Completely agree, "roll your own" overcomplicates things. I simplified to spur curiosity, & why I ended with use of alternative tools for private messaging, like signal.
It can be simple. Generate your public/ private keys, & start trading public keys with people. When you send a message to someone it'll be encrypted using their public key & only able to be decrypted by their private key so your message to them stays secure. Sign that message with your signature to prove origin.
Rusty Shackleford
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2026-04-14 16:28:28 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…xzn8
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