On Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:03 PM Michael Rogers wrote: > If you have any information about how FireChat works on Android I'd > be interested to hear it.
None whatsoever. Today I hope to attend the FireChat presentation in Palo Alto: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/firechat-from-hong-kong-protests-to-connecting-the-next-5-billion-tickets-15235777621 - so whoever is interested is certainly welcome to come and ask any questions - but I'm afraid that even after that my understanding will be a bit less clear than what you might require from the practical standpoint. And I have a suspicion that you might be a bit too far to come to Palo Alto in six hours. :) Thank you for the Thali link, though. Interesting. I had an impression that FireChat was significantly more robust. "Samsung and Nexus had a lot of trouble talking to each other. 50% plus failure rates weren't uncommon" - is not exactly what I expected to see; neiter this one: "It was only when I forceably stopped the FireChat app and restarted it that I then had 100% success across the board". Maybe it became better since October of 2014, which is the lower boundary of this test date (unfortunately the exact date and FireChat version were not present in the test description). Thank you - S.Osokine. 22 Jan 2015. -----Original Message----- From: p2p-hackers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Rogers Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 12:03 PM To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Mesh networks and DoS -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 22/01/15 17:59, Serguei Osokine wrote: > On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 3:45 AM Michael Rogers wrote: >> The overlay links can use pretty much any transport including >> TCP, Bluetooth, Tor, dialup modems and USB sticks. > > Interesting. Thank you, Michael! > > Does it mean that currently Briar project has no transport of its > own - i.e. it cannot, say, establish connections between nearby > phones, the way FireChat does? Or two nearby Briar systems will > find each other even in the absence of Internet? Nearby devices will automatically find each other and connect via Bluetooth if their owners are on each other's contact lists. They'll also find each other via wifi if they're connected to the same network. A plugin for Wi-Fi Direct shouldn't be hard to write. If you have any information about how FireChat works on Android I'd be interested to hear it. Yaron Goland carried out some experiments recently that suggest it may use a combination of Bluetooth and wifi to connect without manual pairing: http://thaliproject.org/ExperimentWithFireChat Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJUwVdtAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMp9YIALNOxeYS/egH9sNnGkDUi2wO +cQQmHGnnTA8Me84Ccl0kJrq/4UtPYa6m57cQxsmUpHv5dL3TCNHp+4TYRbzII4t g1i9ilPez1IKeA82E+2o21Mq7EYy3geUSiVVaQGeA9+F+rr9cCTg4fYwc3HdvWdc k3hLZDZ/q6xMr0tiNxjgdb2cULjO9zDlpL2TOr9hMSDsByp98aqoLjN3DZ9CJBh2 dO2uVjVcfDyQ9J6g+zmKrlCGMgjGqXIeT3Z57NE5x/uc/wKzaWIislhKlPrWP33j fdu6pWbRgRVClCahD1oyUs0MKZwSKW7CtXlUDgnSta2vv7menz3DV7t6j03Keao= =wyXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers Confidentiality notice: This message may contain confidential information. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not that person, you should not use this message. We request that you notify us by replying to this message, and then delete all copies including any contained in your reply. Thank you. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
