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Sharing dats privately #2

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jayrbolton opened this issue Apr 1, 2017 · 0 comments
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Sharing dats privately #2

jayrbolton opened this issue Apr 1, 2017 · 0 comments

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  • user A requests to be a contact with user B
  • both users generate new dats that hold metadata specifically for their relationship (what private dats they want to share w eachother)
  • both users encrypt the addresses of these dats using each other's pubkeys and temporarily place those encrypted addresses in their own public metadats
  • each user decrypts each other's "contact metadat" address and then saves the address privately on their own device.
  • whenever user A wants to share a dat privately with user B, they save the dat address inside the "relationship dat" that they have for user B. user B reads that address and it shows up in the UI.

So the only downside is that there's a temporary file (the encrypted address) that could indicate to the public that a contact request is pending (maybe it could be pretty obfuscated though). The upside is no-one will ever be able to read the full list of your contacts, and nobody would ever have a clue about what you're sharing with whom.

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