Dnia niedziela, 6 lipca 2014 13:42:55 grarpamp pisze:
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Lodewijk andré de la porte <l@odewijk.nl> wrote:
Just write the communications layer. Expose it through a socket on the local machine. Let's say the port will be 33742 (actually a good port number) (say
This little daemon/server maintains the connection to whatever P2P network is currently thought to be neat. It may or may not also do DNS-ish stuff and (if that's the popular P2P thing) it can have a keyring with trusted peers (aka "friends").
Once you have that you can communicate in an abstracted form. You can send
Yes, I've always felt the level of interop among crypto darknets is arbitrarily far less than ideal. Everybody seems to want to make their own user protocol for umm, say, the simple act of sending a message. And with all these different vertical darknet silos, you'll never be able to seamlessly cross message your friends on some other nets you also happen to be running. Then even if you got a pluggable *user* protocol for messaging, surfing, storage ironed out and made, you still have the problem of *backend* dest (and src) addressing. ie: There are at least four, maybe six nets I know of that can present an IPv6 tunnel interface to the user. Making it dead simple to securely route all your traffic into the darknet[s], or the entire set of darknets based on CIDR block addressing into them. But no, right now they overlap and conflict :( And without IPv6, they use different native addressing schemes.
This begs for a serious sitdown conference amongst darknets to see what better cooperative user and backend interfaces might be possible. Or at least create one grand DHT based middleware addressing shim between them and the user (and preferably one that presents IPv6 tun interface, you know... because every app on the planet can speak that these days. Which is a big adoption win.)
Absolutely. Without serious and seamless interoperability, we have no way of actually getting people to use these solutions. "Nobody's there" × tens of solutions/networks. This is, by the way, a huge problem in the free and open decentralised/federated crowd. Consider this e-mail exchange: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-fedsocweb/2013May/0058.html -- Pozdr rysiek