Vic on Nostr: They can be public and they can be private. This comes down to how the clients choose ...

They can be public and they can be private. This comes down to how the clients choose to implement them while following the specification.

- public association to pubkey, public clear text data
- public association to pubkey, private encrypted data
- public association to pubkey, with a mix of clear text data and encrypted data
etc

In the case of Corny Chat petnames, I went with making it known the relationship was public, but the actually assigned petname is private.