I've been wondering about something along these lines for a little while. Is there a potential capability in FreedomBox to transmit substantive, asynchronous messages between two or more parties directly through the mesh network, or at least within Tor? And can this be done without the highly complex and confusing business of running a mailserver? It would clearly be a little silly if messages between dissidents on a mesh network, especially in a closed country, could route one another's packets but generally had to deposit messages at Google or another service to actually be read. For real-time two-person messaging, there is already an off-the-shelf solution: including some form of torchat (jtorchat maybe?). For real-time multi-person messaging, the cryptocat protocol might have some promise, particularly if it could easily be tweaked to put the chatroom address on a hidden service. If the FBXs have very high uptime, then the synchronous instant messaging protocol(s) might sort of work alright: the message just waits for the user to read it, or the sending FBX puts it in an outbox until it can establish a connection. But if there are significant uptime limitations (power outages, internet outages, people feeling the need to turn off or hide their FBXs when not in use), then maybe something more complex and robust needs to be considered. Or has the consensus been that a full-on mailserver will be part of the setup? _____________ Adam Colligan AdamColligan.net http://www.AdamColligan.net On 2012-12-17 06:00, freedombox-discuss-request@lists.alioth.debian.org wrote:

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