Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy

Re:Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and ext... by LinuxinaBIt on Thursday August 15, 2024 @11:59PM (#41263042)

Reticulum uses absolutely no blockchain. It uses a fairly novel routing strategy with something called announces.

Read this page to learn more about it: https://reticulum.network/manual/understanding.html

TL;DR it only flood routes packets that tell the network the location of a node; each node stores the “next hop” to get to every other node on the network. Everything else is routed along a single path determined by that “next hop.”

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Re:Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and ext... by cyberax on Friday August 16, 2024 @03:05PM (#41269374)

What stops me from flooding the network with 10^12 of fake addresses?

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Re:Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and ext... by adinisom on Sunday August 18, 2024 @02:07AM (#41280444)

The intended solution seems to be a 2% bandwidth limit for announcements and a preference for lower hop-counts to keep your flooding local.

There's a FAQ item on this: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/wiki/Frequently-Asked...

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