myself on Nostr: This is offtopic but isn't it strange that Nostr uses a JSON-serialized string to ...
This is offtopic but isn't it strange that Nostr uses a JSON-serialized string to calculate the event ID/signature? It's somewhat vague as different implementations may serialize the same object differently (e.g. due to escaping). Maybe something binary would have made more sense.
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2023-03-10 13:09:22Event JSON
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"id": "9d3a9bbabcad1817c0386a84332f68a819da208abd7e9b3758fbb7859465e4ac",
"pubkey": "67ddca50751581c703c174790588c2cd8b00f80313d0f80a5b9e73d45e48ac20",
"created_at": 1678453762,
"kind": 1,
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"content": "This is offtopic but isn't it strange that Nostr uses a JSON-serialized string to calculate the event ID/signature? It's somewhat vague as different implementations may serialize the same object differently (e.g. due to escaping). Maybe something binary would have made more sense.",
"sig": "193518061bd8c676ea959c39138fcbb27e38bdf018b3c077994f190d384fb0a43d38c0eb971bb20b7c6d734db00fa30e128b494f24afcbb1d5c9dd285a6f3b5d"
}
