curious whether anyone’s thought about how to replicate the UX of a locked account on a decentralized platform like farcaster. it seems like a really interesting and challenging problem!

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@cassie has thoughts about this 

I think the hard part is when the group that is allowed to view keeps changing rapidly

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i’m curious whether something like what we built for penumbra transactions could work here. writeup soon(tm), but basically we can hand out viewing keys of particular transactions, so interfaces don’t need access to long term view keys

then revoking access to a user means shutting off their ability to query your cast keys, so if they weren’t archiving them all they’re locked out of past data too

farcaster://casts/0xc101089f1b39ebfec35592db78e17e114498be4a525e4d4533b5a558759a8b2a/0x44d570cc78953026677448a21799a8348375e286272492cf2ad8bfce4a87480d

the analog would be, like, each user shares a longer term key with a server they trust somewhat (remember we’re just trying to recover the web2 privacy model), and that user’s followers can auth to their server to request per-post decryption keys.