XPost: linux.debian.devel, linux.debian.maint.hams
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Antoine Beaupre <
anarcat@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc:
debian-devel@lists.debian.org,
debian-hams@lists.debian.org
* Package name : reticulum
Version : 0.9.3
Upstream Contact:
https://github.com/markqvist/
* URL :
https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: Python
Description : cryptography-based networking stack for building unstoppable networks with LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi and everything in between
Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building
local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. It can
operate even with very high latency and extremely low
bandwidth. Reticulum allows you to build wide-area networks with
off-the-shelf tools, and offers end-to-end encryption and
connectivity, initiator anonymity, autoconfiguring cryptographically
backed multi-hop transport, efficient addressing, unforgeable delivery acknowledgements and more.
The vision of Reticulum is to allow anyone to be their own network
operator, and to make it cheap and easy to cover vast areas with a
myriad of independent, inter-connectable and autonomous
networks. Reticulum is not one network. It is a tool for building
thousands of networks. Networks without kill-switches, surveillance,
censorship and control. Networks that can freely interoperate,
associate and disassociate with each other, and require no central
oversight. Networks for human beings. Networks for the people.
Reticulum is a complete networking stack, and does not rely on IP or
higher layers, but it is possible to use IP as the underlying carrier
for Reticulum. It is therefore trivial to tunnel Reticulum over the
Internet or private IP networks.
Having no dependencies on traditional networking stacks frees up
overhead that has been used to implement a networking stack built
directly on cryptographic principles, allowing resilience and stable functionality, even in open and trustless networks.
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Reticulum is similar to Meshtastic (already packaged in Debian) in
that it's a mesh that works that operates over LoRa, except
Reticulum's mesh algorithm are more efficient and cryptography is
stronger, and it operates over a wider range of backends (more than
LoRa!)
The reticulum software here is mostly the daemon, to actually send
messages, you typically need something like LXMF (a separate library
and protocol), meshchat (electron app) or nomadnet (TUI).
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