The original Alice keys public and private are provided by Bob in the invitation. They have to be so Bob can configure his node to allow communication from them.
Alice then sends her real pubkey for future use and provides an alias pubkey as well. The aliases are used for identification and encryption, but real keys are used to sign the payload after it has been decrypted.
It is a bit more complicated because there are sub keys involved to effect access control. You wouldn't want to use the same key to play wordle that you use to make payments.
I'll let you just read the actual specs when they are done. I am trying to make them as simple as possible. I don't want to make some 30 page RFC for different aspects.
Daniel Wigton
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2026-01-30 04:30:11 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…2ncd
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