Draft "PoScatternet" binding to relay parcels via scatternets (Bluetooth meshnets) #46
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attribute-censorship-circumvention
Technology or technique to evade censorship
new-binding-proposal
Proposal for a new Message Transport Binding
This would allow private gateways connected to the same scatternet to exchange parcels.
The main use case would be to support protesters, as they could use instant messaging apps -- amongst other apps -- during a protest. This would be even more powerful when combined with the broadcast functionality in #43.
The main risk I see is an attacker infiltrating to identify the origin of each parcel and/or refuse to relay them to other gateways, so this is going to involve a trade off between privacy, performance and availability. And obviously privacy is going to have to take precedence so I'm inclined to use a flooding algorithm.
See also #45.
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