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Nncp: Ad-hoc friend-to-friend delay-tolerant sneakernet-compatible darknet

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I'm always fascinated by the various design decisions made by projects in this space. Does anyone have a decent list of decentralized mesh networks like this?

Also, I've always thought that content centric networking would be a good option for these types of projects - is there any new research in that direction that people on this board are aware of?

- Veilid

- Reticulum

- I2P

- Mycoria

- Yggdrasil

I've always adored the cyberpunk aesthetic of surreptitiously passing SD cards around between people to transfer files, so I love looking at these sneakernet projects.

I just pray that things will never get bad enough that I actually have to use things like this on a day to day basis...

Not just under dictatorship. An attack on networking infra can yield very flakey connections.

Under dictatorships, you will be found guilty if you are found with an SD card full of encrypted files.

While the encryption does protect your data, it definitely doesn't protect you. Probably hurts you, as people will start applying iron bars to find out how to uneceypt your data.

Hidden volumes or steganography have been around for a while for the explicit purpose of 'plausible deniability': https://www.truecrypt.org

And I can say I'm carrying a deck of cards around because I really like playing solitaire in my free time, but its not going to stop the govt from beating me with the boot if they really want to.

Yes, it's just that if they really want to, even the entire deck of cards side of the story becomes irrelevant.

https://xkcd.com/538/

Dictatorships don't need proof to beat, detain or kill you though.

Having an encrypted SD card is bad, but so is looking suspicious, knowing someone suspicious, having the wrong shaped skull etc etc etc.

As I said, I pray that I never have to live in such a society.

This is really cool but at first it was not that clear whether the project is serious or made in a recent decade.

Clicking around eventually took me here [1] with some cleaner prose, a publish date, etc although it’s more blog than reference. HN will probably like it since we love to hate the modern state of self hosting email

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/tag/nncp

Interesting, do anyone know if we can run a decentralized MQTT (or any message queue) over this?

You probably want to combine that with filespooler <https://www.complete.org/introduction-to-filespooler/>, a tool to write packets to be handled sequentially. It will convert everything into files that can then be transported however you want, by mail, by syncthing, by nncp, ...

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