ARMADA

This page is a test publication. It exists to prove that a censorship-resistant publishing system actually publishes, against infrastructure nobody involved controls.

What you are looking at

There is no server that holds this page. There is a signed manifest, published to a set of Nostr relays, which maps each path in this site to the SHA-256 of its contents. The bytes themselves sit on several unrelated blob servers. Whatever you are reading this through fetched the manifest, checked its signature, fetched these bytes from whichever provider answered first, and refused to show them to you unless they hashed to what the manifest said.

If the gateway you are using disappears tonight, this page does not. If any one of the blob servers disappears, this page does not. That is the entire claim, and it is the only claim worth making: not that this is unstoppable, but that stopping it costs more than one abuse email.

Reading it without a gateway

A gateway is a convenience and a chokepoint. You can remove it. Two things are enough: this site's public key, and one relay address.

armada-local <npub> --relay <relay-url>

That starts a resolver on your own machine. From then on nobody can block this for you specifically; they can only block the network you are on. Moving from the first situation to the second is the most useful thing this system can do for a reader.

What this does not do

It does not make you anonymous. Availability of content and anonymity of its author are different properties, and this system delivers the first one. A perfectly unstoppable site published from an identified account offers its author no protection at all.

It does not survive a national firewall that also controls which software you can install. Nothing at this layer does. The honest answer there is an offline copy, passed hand to hand, which verifies itself against the same signature.

It does not distinguish between an archive somebody wants suppressed and something genuinely harmful. The same design serves both. That is not an accident of the architecture; it is the architecture.

The key that signed this

A throwaway, generated for this test and used for nothing else. Its successor was generated at the same time and committed to in this manifest, which is the only way a stolen key can be rotated away from later.