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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.

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Reticulum seems like a promising protocol but I doubt it can be used practically as a mesh over packet radio at low baud rates given its asymmetric encryption suite.

Constant key exchanges, message acknowledgements, and large payloads over standards like AX.25 or FT8 would quickly congest a given frequency using off-the-shelf analog equipment that requires audio mod/demod. But it would probably work fine for more traditional, client-server traffic or simplex traffic.

It seems much better suited to digital traffic in the 900mhz+ range a-la Meshtastic or Arednmesh.

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