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There are great many explorations on a decentralized protocols (this, Zeronet, IPFS, urbit) but I don't see many infrastructure related projects that we can pla

by 627467 9y ago

There are great many explorations on a decentralized protocols (this, Zeronet, IPFS, urbit) but I don't see many infrastructure related projects that we can play with today. Anyone can knows of hardware stack that enables fault-tolerant meshnets?

noajshu 9y ago
I know about this project in my neighborhood: https://oaklandnorth.net/2013/11/27/mesh-network-offers-potential-for-free-wireless-internet-in-oakland/ https://oaklandnorth.net/2013/11/27/mesh-network-offers-pote...
- chabes 9y ago
  That's really cool! I wonder if there are other projects like that elsewhere in the Bay Area
tyingq 9y ago
I'd love to see an implementation that uses "parasitic storage". There seem to be enough free places to post content now that it would be workable, especially if you thought broader than just things like Google drive. Throw in free blogging platforms, pastebins, free email + attachments, etc, and a bit of PKI (obfuscate) + redundant copies. That would allow for real world use without having to rely on things like "pinning".
- shakna 9y ago
  Couple years ago, a couple friends and I threw together something like that. GPG encrypted messages with a huge list of fallbacks where messages got stored. (Pastes, private subreddit, Facebook via RSS). The code was truly awful, but the premise was we just needed each others public keys, and all was good. (Killed the project when one of us lost their private key, and we realized hardcoding the public keys had been a terrible idea). I don't think I have the code anymore, but shouldn't be much more than a weekend project if you stick with text only.
- odinho 9y ago
  Blockstack 'Gaia' is a bit like that. But more focused on the actual storage services like Google Drive / S3 / Dropbox. Mentioned in the whitepaper: https://blockstack.org/papers https://blockstack.org/papers
infinisil 9y ago
At my university there is ongoing research into a next-generation internet architecture: https://www.scion-architecture.net/ https://www.scion-architecture.net/

by 627467 9y ago

noajshu 9y ago

I know about this project in my neighborhood: https://oaklandnorth.net/2013/11/27/mesh-network-offers-potential-for-free-wireless-internet-in-oakland/ https://oaklandnorth.net/2013/11/27/mesh-network-offers-pote...

chabes 9y ago
That's really cool! I wonder if there are other projects like that elsewhere in the Bay Area

tyingq 9y ago

I'd love to see an implementation that uses "parasitic storage". There seem to be enough free places to post content now that it would be workable, especially if you thought broader than just things like Google drive. Throw in free blogging platforms, pastebins, free email + attachments, etc, and a bit of PKI (obfuscate) + redundant copies. That would allow for real world use without having to rely on things like "pinning".

shakna 9y ago
Couple years ago, a couple friends and I threw together something like that. GPG encrypted messages with a huge list of fallbacks where messages got stored. (Pastes, private subreddit, Facebook via RSS). The code was truly awful, but the premise was we just needed each others public keys, and all was good. (Killed the project when one of us lost their private key, and we realized hardcoding the public keys had been a terrible idea). I don't think I have the code anymore, but shouldn't be much more than a weekend project if you stick with text only.
odinho 9y ago
Blockstack 'Gaia' is a bit like that. But more focused on the actual storage services like Google Drive / S3 / Dropbox. Mentioned in the whitepaper: https://blockstack.org/papers https://blockstack.org/papers

infinisil 9y ago

At my university there is ongoing research into a next-generation internet architecture: https://www.scion-architecture.net/ https://www.scion-architecture.net/