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NomadNet
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Reticulum Development Roadmap
Related programs such as Sideband and Nomadnet has also had their repositories updated with more visible roadmaps.
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Are any of you actually working on privacy-related projects?
I have built a few simple communications tools with Reticulum, Nomadnet and Sideband.
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Is there a good chat application for using just over your home ethernet?
While it is definitely not for everyone, you could take a look at Nomad Network and Sideband.
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Using a Th-d74a for more than APRS and Winlink?
If you are in a country that does not disallow encryption on ham radio, you can look at Nomad Network (https://github.com/markqvist/nomadnet) or some of then other things you can do with the Reticulum stack (https://reticulum.network).
- Nomadnet is a resilient and encrypted mesh communications platform for the terminal
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Internet/ Mobile outage preps
https://reticulum.network https://github.com/markqvist/sideband https://github.com/markqvist/nomadnet
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LoRa Text Messaging Networks
Reticulum + LXMF can scale to thousands (or millions) of nodes, and can use LoRa (and many other things) as a physical layer. Nomadnet is a client that allows both instant messaging and delayed-delivery messages (like email): https://github.com/markqvist/nomadnet
meshnet-lab
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Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network
Most of the mobility testing has been performed either in the meshnet-lab[1] or the pineconesim[2].
As the original author of that documentation, it's quite entertaining to have it quoted back to me. :-) In any case the routing "prefers" links labelled as the internet when there is a tiebreak between two peerings between the same pair of nodes, i.e. you are connected to some other device via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth simultaneously.
And while it is true that Pinecone cannot necessarily always make the best routing decision based on public keys alone, aggressive queue management attempts to provide the best QoS for all flows and it scales very well because nodes maintain only a small amount of state about their position in the spanning tree and their position in the SNEK. Importantly, shortcuts can and often are taken when Pinecone switches to tree-based routing as the geometric distance to the destination on the tree is evaluated at each hop. Routing "by the SNEK" is used primarily to find the remote node and as a fallback in case the tree routing fails.
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XMPP, a Comeback Story: A Protocol for Robust, Private and Decentralized Comms
Lots of interesting stuff there - thanks :) We're using https://github.com/mwarning/meshnet-lab rather than imunes.net for network simulation currently, but will take a look.
Power usage is looking pretty positive so far; as long as we route the Matrix traffic over the routing topology rather than going full-mesh it should minimise radio usage (the main battery suck, other than screen).
For store-and-forward, honestly using P2P Nodes as intermediaries is an okay approach other than exposing metadata to them. Our plan in the longer term is to switch to loopix-style mixnets to obfuscate the store and forwarding, a la nym.
In terms of joining the network by deriving a private key from a passphrase... yup, that could be cute, although slightly terrifying in terms of the risk of weak passphrases :)
We're hoping to get the P2P network stable in the coming year (although we were also aiming for this year originally :P)
What are some alternatives?
meshtastic - Meshtastic project website and documentation
Reticulum - The cryptography-based networking stack for building unstoppable networks with LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi and everything in between.
cinny - Yet another matrix client
disaster-radio - A (paused) work-in-progress long-range, low-bandwidth wireless disaster recovery mesh network powered by the sun.
libremdb - A free & open source IMDb front-end.
sucks - Simple command-line script for the Ecovacs series of robot vacuums
Sideband - LXMF client for Android, Linux and macOS allowing you to communicate with people or LXMF-compatible systems over Reticulum networks using LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi, I2P, or anything else Reticulum supports.
polyjuice_server
fake_contacts - Create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning.
wg-meshconf - WireGuard full mesh configuration generator.
matrix-bifrost - General purpose bridging with a variety of backends including libpurple and xmpp.js
ocaml-matrix - Implementation of a matrix server in OCaml for MirageOS