If petnames are part of the kind 3 data that clients store publicly on relays then encrypting them would be critical to avoid inadvertent doxxing.
Let's say I have a friend who has a pubkey they share with me that they want to use anonymously. I follow that pubkey and give it a petname. Then I intentionally (with some clients) or unintentionally (with other clients) save my kind 3 follow list to my write relays.
For that matter, maybe it would be better by default to use kind 30000 (from NIP 51) for saving contact lists to relays for client interoperability and then let kind 3's only be for intentionally saving public lists of people for other purposes.
pjv
npub1pjv…0h42
2023-10-02 13:27:43
in reply to nevent1q…l866
Author Public Key
npub1pjvcwasj9ydasx9nmkf09pftsg640vm5fs7tzprssew8544yj2ds6e0h42Published at
2023-10-02 13:27:43Event JSON
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