-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/27/2012 11:54 AM, Jerzy Łogiewa wrote:
> I wonder, is some FIDONET type service existing for countries where > all telecom is disabled? Kind of "sneakernet" for large packets of > messages to be delivered. There are a couple of projects like that right now, but I do no know how much action they are seeing. https://github.com/sanity/tahrir https://github.com/endymion/sneakernet Project Byzantium has considered using this to synch the datastores of unlinked meshes via sneakernet: https://github.com/campadrenalin/EJTP-lib-python Also, the FidoNET protocol is alive and well: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fidoip/ http://control.zcu.cz/~flidr/fido/ > 1- I write message to [username, address or hash], encrypt with > public/private pair. 2- Trusted "sneakernet" collector with some > software physically arrives and grabs my message, updates my 'ball' > (or blob?) of crypted messages, in case other > sneakernet collector comes. That would be doable. I am playing with something like that for CouchDB. > 3- Maybe when delivery is 100% confirmed this gets added to ball so > it can be pruned? Say, if originating nodes get their packets back (the distribution cycle is complete), and expire the message? > And so on. Bitcoin style blockchain confirmation seems useful? That might not be a good idea. Not only would it result in a list that can be used to identify nodes, but it also increases overhead and complexity. Perhaps 'best effort' is the way to go about this. It would be useful to determine the capabilities of existing implementations to see how many reimplementations of wheels could be avoided. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Nondeterminism means never having to say you're wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDeIwgACgkQO9j/K4B7F8HUCACg8bYUyJLpICmEUIUxZ1rPVhtB CsQAn0QYRuBTD4H4sM4/PJY/z6OudM96 =LG8L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
