[Commotion-dev] interesting tech offer from IRC

[Jeremy Lakeman]

This is also something that The Serval Project is working on. Though
we're only in the early stages and have some other higher priorities
ATM.
We're planning to solve unique ids, spoofing and MITM by using
elliptic curve cryptography at the network layer. And we have plans to
load balance and store and forward some traffic types to improve
reliability.

But we'd certainly welcome any other ideas you might wish to share. We
aren't naive enough to assume that there aren't going to be any better
approaches.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Josh King <josh at chambana.net> wrote:
> Hey Paul,
>
> This is really interesting! Runesadvice, pleased to make your
> acquaintance. My name is Josh King, I'm the Commotion project's
> technical lead. Some of the issues mentioned are ones that we have
> approaches for, but our project isn't tied to any one strategy. Could
> you elaborate a bit on your protocol and how it approaches some of the
> problems you mentioned? I'm sure we would be interested in hearing more,
> and perhaps we could share some of our thoughts. Thanks!
>
> On 12/15/2011 01:12 PM, Paul Bame wrote:
>> Guessing most folks missed this generous offer in IRC, but it may be worth
>> someone (probably not me) following up on:
>>
>> (09:49:53 AM) runesadvice: Good morning.  Anyone awake?
>> (11:26:56 AM) runesadvice: Checking in again: anyone awake?
>> (11:28:41 AM) paulbame: runesadvice: maybe ask your question?  someone may answer, or may answer later (several folks run caching irc proxies I think)
>> (11:31:09 AM) runesadvice: All right.
>> (11:31:38 AM) runesadvice: Many moons ago I grew up on the fringes of the third world, and was driven by the environment ...
>> (11:32:12 AM) runesadvice: ... to examine how one might get bandwidth and access made available without ...
>> (11:32:24 AM) runesadvice: ... substantial exposure to network outages, or government interference.
>> (11:32:50 AM) runesadvice: I ended up developing a protocol which was self-organising, and failure resilient.
>> (11:33:20 AM) runesadvice: It explicitly eschewed centralised systems, and even human interaction insofar possible.
>> (11:33:35 AM) runesadvice: Now you guys may have all solved all these things for yourselves - I don't know.
>> (11:34:01 AM) runesadvice: But on the offchance that someone felt this might be an unsolved problem ...
>> (11:34:20 AM) runesadvice: ... whether owing to computational limits, coordination difficulties or whatever ...
>> (11:34:33 AM) runesadvice: ... I felt that I should make the offer, even though I'm in the first world now.
>> (11:39:31 AM) runesadvice: Component problems I solved, for the record:  Unique ID, MITM attacks ...
>> (11:40:21 AM) runesadvice: routing, spoofing, throttling, load balancing.
>> (11:40:32 AM) runesadvice: Oh, and naming.
>> (12:19:32 PM) runesadvice: So I guess the question is: do y'all care?  Or want to know more?
>> (12:59:04 PM) bcduggan [~bcduggan at 64.124.162.98] entered the room.
>> (01:07:30 PM) paulbame: runesadvice: I think the answer is that folks would like to know more, and this isn't a real good way to reach them unfortunately.  I'll paste your intro into an email to the list and cc you if you want to share your email address  ?
>> (01:11:04 PM) runesadvice: OK, sure.  advice at csmctmto.bizfu.net
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