> On 25/07/13 10:00, carlo von lynX wrote: > > a dropbox is technically a multicast context anonymously* > > subscribed to by one or millions of recipients. the name of the > > context is the public key necessary to write to it. by looking it > > up in the DHT you find possible root nodes of the multicast. you > > can send messages to them encrypted to that public key - they will > > trickle down to the subscribers. the ones who have the private key > > can read the messages.
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:00:43AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: > This is interesting, but not what I have in mind, which is a way for > two users to communicate asynchronously by storing and collecting > encrypted data at a third party. think again, yours seems to me a special case of the above.... it's enough for you to have two devices ready to receive the message for the multicast thingie to pay off.
