On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Bill Broadley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think WhisperPush's approach with TextSecure is interesting: > * they partnered with cyanogen to because the default on a substantial > number of phones > * It "just works" with any SMS user, granted no security/encryption > * It "just works" securely with any other TextSecure user > * It also "just works" on IOS, granted a user has to track it down > and install it. > TextSecure is neat, but so far as I can tell it doesn't "organically" promote itself -- I need to know "out of band" that you use TextSecure before I can use it with you, because the key exchange message is unintelligible. If it said something like "I'm using TextSecure; download it from http://link to talk with me securely", then I could do a key exchange with everyone without first asking if they know what it is. Even better, it should automatically send this to everybody I talk with first thing. This way I wouldn't even need to think about it: just install TextSecure and it would automatically discover which of my friends have it installed and silently use it, and automatically encourage everybody who *doesn't* already have it installed to do so. ChatSecure looks pretty reasonable. In a perfect world I'd hope for a > client that: > * fully decentralized, only has find the bit-torrent mainline DHT to > be able to find peers. Why not use the existing 10M peers to help > find compatible peers. > Neat idea! Granted, you still need to somehow bootstrap into the BitTorrent DHT, but I like the idea of boostrapping one DHT off of another pre-existing DHT. > * allowing people to have a home node that trades bandwidth/storage > with peers and then a mobile node with the same crypto identify > that can leverage the home node and any of it's peers. > > Ideally I could have a 2TB disk ($100) at hosting my more important > files (200GB) and earning the good will of it's peers by hosting > encrypted blobs for them. Leave it connected to a raspberry pi/beagle > board black for $40. Then as needed I can use the goodwill of those > peers to record for whatever bandwidth/storage needs I have. > This is a really clever idea too! I like the idea of my home connection gradually building long-lived "friendships" with other home nodes, and then my mobile node can call upon my home and all its friends whenever it needs. -david
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