Nice. Earlier I was thinking along these lines for DMs to deal with the metadata issue without requiring gift-wrapping.
-Bob creates a secondary npub, this npub has no profile
-Bob messages Alice from the secondary npub with a special event called an 'It's me message' (IMM) or some such thing. This templated message contains Bob's actual npub
-Alice's client receives the IMM and sends back an IMM return (also an event type, contains a code valid for a period of time)
-Bob's client adds this code to Bob's profile, similar to adding a TXT record for DNS verification
-Bob's client sends a "go check" message to Alice
-Alice's client sees the code on Bob's profile and marks the DM chat as as being with Bob. Code is no longer needed.
The idea being this would all run over a few seconds, and Alice would not have to know anything about it if the verification failed.
JoeRuelle / Joe Ruelle
npub1hy…wtqnx
2025-01-02 02:40:06
in reply to nevent1q…jwhl
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2025-01-02 02:40:06Event JSON
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