Alex Gleason on Nostr: Trying to grok the issue. A relay can send events with the wrong pubkey, but then ...
Trying to grok the issue. A relay can send events with the wrong pubkey, but then signature verification will fail. They can also send wrong events for a filter, but then matchFilters will filter them out. In what scenario is it potentially harmful?
Published at
2023-10-10 18:35:29Event JSON
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"pubkey": "79c2cae114ea28a981e7559b4fe7854a473521a8d22a66bbab9fa248eb820ff6",
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"content": "Trying to grok the issue. A relay can send events with the wrong pubkey, but then signature verification will fail. They can also send wrong events for a filter, but then matchFilters will filter them out. In what scenario is it potentially harmful?",
"sig": "32237eab88e96a0e4cd6ca1f542e224ff5b6168151586f5731080c49f898195de980b4552928e98c8bc830cf4f632eab3f004bf3cb228fe1da1ec677c41e6590"
}
