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NIP-55
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Proxied NIP-05 Authetication
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-----------------------------------
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`draft` `optional` `author:benthecarman`
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This NIP defines a way for clients to ask a relay to fetch the JSON document for a given NIP-05 address on their behalf.
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## Motivation
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A bad actor could be logging IP addresses and doing all of kinds of analytics on users that are making requests to a NIP-05 address in order
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to verify the user. This could be proxied through a trusted relay to help protect the user.
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The `NIP-05` parameter is used so the `PROXY` message can be later extended for other proxied requests in the future (ie image downloading).
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## Definitions
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This NIP defines a new message, `PROXY`, which clients can send to ask a relay to proxy a request through
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```
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["PROXY", "NIP-05", <NIP-05 address>]
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```
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And, when sent by relays, of the following form:
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```
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["PROXY", "NIP-05", <NIP-05 address>, <JSON returned from NIP-05 address>]
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```
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## Expected Behavior
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If clients are worried about a relay lying to them, they can send the same `PROXY` request to multiple relays, if any of them give a different result,
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they can assume that relay may be malicious.
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Relays would be expected to fetch the JSON on behalf of the user, in order to prevent potential DoS attacks the relays could cache these requests to
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save on bandwidth.
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