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what would be the best way to encrypt a cast, so that only a set of selected fids can decrypt it?

(ofc not in warpcast, warpcast would only see gibberish)

Sounds like Broadcast Encryption
https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/broadcast.pdf

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thanks! any good js or python implementations?

Hmm I'm not seeing any 😕. Btw, if the recipient sets are small, you could always just encrypt the message for each recipient and broadcast the ciphertexts. The benefit of the above system is that ciphertext size is independent of the # of recipients.

But, it requires a setup that generates keys for each user, which is impractical for a decentralized use case. It feels like you may be able to solve this with MPC, or directly with a new broadcast encryption scheme: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/874.pdf

This takes you deep down the cryptography rabbit hole though 😅

I can have a look around later today, but any standard encryption library based on ethereum public keys should work. You should just need to combine it with a fid -> public key lookup

oh yeah we are def ok with stuff that doesn't scale

im just looking for a good js lib to implement the encryption, haven't done it before