• What is NostrP2P?
• Consept and Design
• Technical Overview
  • Difference and Commpon Points with (General) Nostr
  • (General) Nostr Architecture
  • NostrP2P Architecture
• Build
• NostrP2P Command Usage
• Specification
• Examples
  • Generate Key Pair
  • Server Launch
• Bootstrap Server
• Client
• Trial
  • Current Implemented Featues on Dedicated NW
  • Current Implemented Features with Nostr Client (Not NostrP2P Client) Using a Protcol Bridge Server
• Roadmap (Server&Client)

What is NostrP2P?

• Pure Peer-to-Peer Distributed Microblogging System on NAT Transparent Overlay Network Based on Idea of Nostr
• Distributed Microblogging System by All User's Contribution
• I wrote an article about NostrP2p :)
  • "NostrP2P: Pure P2P Distributed Microblogging System - ryo_grid's tech articles"

Concept and Design

• here (English)
  • English version is latest :)
• Japanese version

Technical Overview

Difference and Commpon Points with (General) Nostr

• Difference with (general) Nostr
  • Server (Relay server)
    • Firstly, in NostrP2P, servers communicate with each other on pure peer-to-peer manner. Clients does not
      • This means that NostrP2P has client-server architecture also
    • Servers of NostrP2P are correspond and similar to Relay server of Nostr but these are more distributed and coodinate with each other
    • Servers handle each recieved event data in a different way though these are not special kind one (ex: replacable events) on Nostr because optimization for pure peer-to-peer network architecture is needed
    • Supporse large number of servers because each user of NostrP2P need my server
    • Client can trust server it accesses to
      • This is important for optimization of client's network resource consumption and power consumption
    • Powerful machine is not needed for server because it handles only one user's requests and amount of managing data is not large compred to (general) Nostr
      • If we considered server (Relay server) as a kind of database system, above is obvious
  • Client
    • Almost same role with one of Nostr but its communication protocol between server is little bit different
      • In current plan, transport is REST and data is encoded to binary. Not websocket and Not JSON text
    • Client which is used by User-A only accesses to a server which is managed by the user only
  • In all of design
    • Microbrogging application specific
      • This means architecture and protcorl of NostrP2P is not for general purpose unlike Nostr
        • "Nostr" is a name of architecture and protocol and not name of SNS and Microblogging system
      • In other words, "NostrP2P" is a name of an microblogging system like "Bluesky"
• Common point with (general) Nostr
  • Data structure of event data is almost same
  • Key pair format and signing method are same
  • Specification like kind number is same if it is for same functionality (at least for now)
  • Functionality realization led by Clients
    • (flexibility may be low compared with general Nostr...)

　　

(General) Nostr Architecture

classDiagram
    RelayServerA <-- ClientX : Raed/Write
    RelayServerA <-- ClientY : Raed/Write    
    RelayServerB <-- ClientX : Raed/Write
    RelayServerB <-- ClientY : Raed/Write
    RelayServerB <-- ClientZ : Raed/Write
    RelayServerC <-- ClientX : Raed/Write    
    RelayServerC <-- ClientZ : Raed/Write
    RelayServerD <-- ClientZ : Raed/Write
    RelayServerD <-- ClientY : Raed/Write

    namespace Internet {
      class RelayServerA{
      }
      class RelayServerB{
      }
      class RelayServerC{
      }
      class RelayServerD{
      }
    }
    class ClientX{

    }
    class ClientY{

    }
    class ClientZ{

    }

NostrP2P Architecture

classDiagram
    ServerA <|--|> ServerB : coodinate
    ServerA <|--|> ServerC : coodinate
    ServerA <|--|> ServerD : coodinate
    ServerB <|--|> ServerC : coodinate
    ServerB <|--|> ServerD : coodinate
    ServerA <-- ClientA : Raed/Write
    ServerB <-- ClientB : Read/Write
    ServerC <-- ClientC : Read/Write
    ServerD <-- ClientD : Read/Write(VPN)
    namespace Internet {
      class ServerA{
      }
      class ServerB{
      }
    }
    namespace NW-C____________ {
      class ServerC{
      }
      class ClientC{
      }      
    }
    namespace NW-D______________ {
      class ServerD{
      }
    }
    namespace NW-A {
      class ClientA{
      }
    }
    namespace NW-B_________ {
      class ClientB{
      }
    }
    namespace NW-X_________ {
      class ClientD{      
      }
    }
    

Build

$ go build -o nostrp2p main.go

NostrP2P Command Usage

Usage:
  nostrp2p [flags]
  nostrp2p [command]

Available Commands:
  help        Help about any command.
  server      Startup server.
  genkey      Generate new key pair.

Flags:
  -h, --help   Help for NostrP2P

Usage:
  nostrp2p server [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help                         Help for server
  -l, --listen-addr-port    string   Address and port to bind to (default: 127.0.0.1:20000)
  -b, --boot-peer-addr-port string   Address and port of a server which already joined NostrP2P network (optional)
  -p, --public-key          string   Your public key (required)
  -d, --debug               bool     If true, debug log is output to stderr (default: false)

Specification

• here

Examples

Generate Key Pair

./nostrp2p genkey
Secret Key:
...
Secret Key (In Hex Representation): 
...
Public Key:
...
Public key (In Hex Representation): 
...

Server Launch

# 4 servers network on local network (4 shells are needed...)
./nostrp2p server  -l 0.0.0.0:20000 -p <public key in npub format>
./nostrp2p server -l 0.0.0.0:20002 -p <public key in npub format> -b 127.0.0.1:20000
./nostrp2p server -l 0.0.0.0:20004 -p <public key in npub format> -b 127.0.0.1:20002
./nostrp2p server -l 0.0.0.0:20006 -p <public key in npub format> -b 127.0.0.1:20000

# 4 servers distributed on different networks

# on network ryogrid.net (bind to address/port which is accessible from The Internet)
./nostrp2p server  -l 0.0.0.0:20000 -p <public key in npub format>

# on network redsky.social (bind to address/port which accessible from The Internet)
./nostrp2p server -l 0.0.0.0:7777 -p <public key in npub format> -b ryogrid.net:9999

# on network A (bind to address/port which is NOT accessible from The Internet)
./nostrp2p server -l 0.0.0.0:20000 -p <public key in npub format> -b ryogrid.net:8888

# on network B (bind to address/port which is NOT accessible from The Internet)
./nostrp2p server -l 0.0.0.0:20000 -p <public key in npub format> -b redsky.social:7777

Bootstrap Server

• Currently, running server which is accessible from The Internet is below
  • ryogrid.net:8888
    • this address including port number shoud be specified at launching of your server with -b option
• These servers don't response to write kind REST API requests from clients. A server for yourself is also needed to use NostrP2P!

Client

• here

Trial

Current Implemented Featues on Dedicated NW

• Please read this

Current Implemented Features with Nostr Client (Not NostrP2P Client) Using a Protcol Bridge Server

• Please read this

Roadmap (Server&Client)

• Messaging on NAT Transparent Overlay Network
• Posting with Client
• Reaction
• Following
• Mention
• Reply
• Quote Repost
• Repost
• Server Side Signature Validation
• Restriction of Memory Usage on Server
• Data persistence on Server with embedded DB
• Follower Multicast Mode
  • In this mode, posted messages are not broadcasted and server of follower should register to followee's server
  • If broadcasting design reaches limit of scalability, this mode will be activated
• Optimization of Communication Data Amount between Client and Server
  • Changing serialization format from JSON Text to MessagePack
    • Format conversion must be needed both side
  • Activate data compression on HTTP layer (gzip, deflate ... etc)
• Developing More Scalable Overlay Transport
  • Overlay NW with Mesh library may not scale over 100 nodes roughly according to a description at here