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NIP-71
Restricted Events
draft
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When the "+"
tag is present, that means the event is "restricted".
A restricted event is an event which requires NIP-42 Authentication of Clients to Relays in order to request. These events can only be requested by:
- the author of the event
- a user tagged in the event
- a user who has NIP-43 Delegated Authentication from the author
Use Cases
- limiting metadata leakage of private chats
- limiting access to content to only paid subscribers
- limiting metadata leakage of personal events (like a journal or private calendar)
Requesting
In order to REQ
for a restricted event, the filter MUST have (a) attibute "restricted": true
to specify the filter is requesting restricted events AND
(b) either "authors"
attribute or "#p"
attribute to establish the pubkey that authentication should be validated for.
If (b) is missing from the filter, the request is invalid and the relay should response with CLOSED
message with prefix "invalid"
.
If the filter does not contain the "restricted": true
attribute, the relay MUST behave as if it does not store any restricted events. Specifically, the relay MUST NOT:
- respond with
CLOSED
and"auth-required"
prefix - request authentication
- return any restricted events
in response to a request. Even if there are restricted events that qualify for the filter, if the filter doesn't not have attribute "restricted": true
the relay should behave as if those events are not stored on the relay.
Access
A user has permission to request any restricted event for which they are the author by:
- authenticating as the author
- authenticating with a delegated authentication token of mode 0-Login from the author
A user has permission to request any restricted event in which their pubkey is tagged by:
- authenticating as the tagged pubkey
- authenticating with a delegated authentication token of mode 0-Login from the tagged pubkey
A user has permission to request any restricted event they have been granted access to by the delegated authentication tokens of mode 1-Restricted Event Permission they authenticate with. The filter used MUST BE narrower in scope than the filter condition of the delegated authentication token.