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  @silverpill@mitra.social Do you think it's worth doing this? Identity hiding is a useful property (especially in the current environment), and simpler is better. Especially if the inner activity is self-authenticating. ps: I should look more into the fediverse protocol, but from what I remember from peeking at it a long time ago it was a giant mess of w3c specs.

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  @silverpill@mitra.social @raucao@kosmos.social @lain@lain.com @sozialwelten@ifwo.eu @koteisaev@mastodon.online HPKE has the benefit of being standardized, and imperfect forward secrecy is the best you can do with 0-RTT (which probably fits the fediverse model better). Just be very careful about the "use correctly" and it's "fine". I'm partial to Noise (https://noiseprotocol.org/) for these sort of use cases because it has less foot+guns and there's more flexibi...

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  @japananon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9XHn33WWHo

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  JSON (and variants) make baby Jesus cry. Unless you absolutely need it to be human readable without tools (though a one-line JSON blob hardly qualifies), for the love of god, use CBOR.