Reticulum VS direwolf

I would very much recommend using https://reticulum.network/ instead (warning: rabbit hole)

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/tree/6ded42edd7ae203e...

I am struggling to understand who the overlap between people who can accurately assess the risk of each of these implementations and correctly find them ok (graduate level cryptography?) and people who cannot get pyca or openssl to compile is.

For offline operation maybe a case could be made that timing side channels aren't an issue in practice, but this is explicitly network software.

There is a similar thread up here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41253922

The author of this blog post is the developer of Reticulum, which is a complete network stack and full-fledged alternative to TCP/IP. (https://reticulum.network/). Reticulum is capable of operating over not just LoRa, but bluetooth low energy, standard WiFi, Packet Radio, and overlay networks like Tor and I2P.

This is worth a look as works over packet radio.

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum

Also:

https://discord.gg/Ay7tj7w4

I would create a mesh wifi. (similar https://reticulum.network/, tox https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore etc)

Any views/comparison reagarding freakwan versus reticulum https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum ?

144.800 is the APRS frequency in Europe. That's part of the 2m amateur band, and you can use tools like Direwolf to decode the packets. See https://aprs.fi/ for a display of the packets that make it to the internet.

Yes, recommended. https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf

Since you're trying to save money, I'll second the direwolf software TNC. There's packet-radio.net with info about setting up direwolf.

By default it should be printing any successfully decoded packets to the terminal window. Did you follow https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf/blob/master/doc/Raspberry-Pi-SDR-IGate.pdf or similar?

I use Direwolf with a Pi Zero and I believe there is a way to get the packet data out or passed to a script. I was going to look into this myself as some point as I wanted to just have a small screen on the Pi just to see traffic passing though my iGate on occasion.

Hardware TNC's were a thing in the 90s but nowadays software TNC'S such as Direwolf are far more efficient

On this topic, has anyone here used direwolf (https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf) to communicate between two computers without radios?

Wheel successfully reinvented :)

Nothing stopping you setting up a whole AX.25 network between multiple machines using Dire Wolf [1] and the built-in AX.25 [2] (a derivation of X.25) support still in the Linux kernel. You get a proper network interface that shows up alongside eth0. Nice short instructions at [3]. Just don't hook it up to radios unless you're appropriately licensed. Speakers and mics only.

[1] https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AX.25

[3] https://g7vrd.co.uk/ax25-direwolf-linux

https://github.com/wb2osz/direwolf has the current and best instructions.