Farcaster Devs

Is hub-to-hub communication encrypted? I know grpc can be, but is it? What about gossip?

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It’s public info why does it need to be? Just wondering

If you want to hide the originating hub of a cast.

Without running a large percentage of hubs or having traffic analysis on them wouldn't it be difficult to determine who originally gossipped a message?

You want to leak some government secret. Or live in Russia and want to share some news that Putin would not appreciate. Hosting your own hub is one step in this direction, but not if they can identify the IP of the hub these casts originated from.

Why would you want to do that? Again casts being public

Is it to just hide your hub? If so why don’t you round robin it to the 13k available hubs?