[Commotion-discuss] Has anyone implemented serverless messaging over a mesh?

[Dan Staples]

Evan,

You might want to check out my project MediaGrid:
http://mediagrid.disman.tl/

It implements a decentralized, encrypted webchat service (as well as
file sharing), and was designed to run on Raspberry Pis in a mesh network.

It's decentralized in that each Pi (or whatever device running it) has a
database of messages that it continuously synchronizes with the other
devices on the mesh, constantly updating with new messages. You can also
do private messages to other users in the webchat, similar to IRC.

Dan

On 10/29/2013 09:34 PM, Evan Hutchison wrote:
> Yes Ben, they do- but it is embedded with the Serval Mesh package which,
> as you point out, runs on Android handsets.  We are using BATMAN with
> Pis as WAPs and routers, as well as with an existing mesh running over
> TP-Link routers- so I want something that can run across different
> platforms (Linux, Mac OS, Windows, Android) and is independent of their
> system. 
> 
> Right after I posted, of course I found kouchat
> <https://code.google.com/p/kouchat/> which runs on everything but
> IPhones.  It does the trick, but I would like to find something that
> allows for MUCs.
> 
> Thanks Dean, will check it out. 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net
> <mailto:ben at gowasabi.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Doesn't Serval have a messaging implementation that they've used on
>     Android handsets?
> 
> 
>     On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Evan Hutchison
>     <evan_hutchison at post.harvard.edu
>     <mailto:evan_hutchison at post.harvard.edu>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi all-
> 
>         I'm working with my media lab class on an off-the-grid emergency
>         response mesh network.  We want to integrate messaging.  I was
>         initially experimenting with a Jabber server but decided
>         serverless messaging would better solve the problem- we want to
>         avoid centralization as much as possible so that if one node
>         goes down, folks can still communicate across the LAN or WAN
> 
>         I ran across a description of an XMPP-like serverless messaging
>         system:  http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0174.html
> 
>         Anyone have any experience or insights?
> 
>         Thanks-
>         Evan
> 
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