Re: [GNUnet-developers] packaging GNUnet for OpenWrt

2015-05-31 Thread carlo von lynX
Sorry for the break of thread, the HTML view doesn't show the Message-Id for me to refer to. I was thinking of writing up an ebuild recipe for gentoo, that would have a whole lot in common with Daniel's excellent openwrt Makefile. To avoid further duplication I can imagine it would be practical if

[GNUnet-developers] iOS victims being late at the GNUnet party

2015-07-16 Thread carlo von lynX
Jeff, thanks for great feedback and the great news that you are working on GNS for Tor. I had a long debate on social networking over Tor early this year where the discussion led us to theorizing using more GNUnet routing in the hidden service backend, possibly including multicast for scalability,

Re: [GNUnet-developers] iOS victims being late at the GNUnet party

2015-07-17 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:23:10PM -0700, Ed Baskerville wrote: > An appealing narrative, but I don't buy it. Let's say the distributed social > network gains traction among on libre platforms. Then your plan is to > implement a jailbreaking tool that iPhone users will install in order to > conn

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Invitation to contribute to a book of decentralized FLOSS for communities

2015-08-21 Thread carlo von lynX
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:21:30AM +0200, Samer wrote: > This is an invitation to the GNUnet project, to submit an abstract (750 > words) for a book on the use of decentralized FLOSS for communities. We > believe you are doing great work and we’d love to have your thoughts on > this project as part

Re: [GNUnet-developers] social messaging progress

2015-09-09 Thread carlo von lynX
There is a meeting on the topic of doing secushare GUIs in Berlin today. Ask in our chatroom if you're in town. On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 03:46:24AM +0300, LRN wrote: > How are you going to call it? How about WhatsGNU? :) Also a possibility. See www.secushare.org for more. -- E-mail is public!

Re: [GNUnet-developers] GSoC

2016-02-16 Thread carlo von lynX
On 02/15/2016 12:11 PM, Martin Schanzenbach wrote: > RESTful GNUnet > > Design and implementation of REST APIs (http://jsonapi.org/) that > expose the GNUnet API (https://gnunet.org/doxygen/modules.html) so that > easy, hands-on development is possible. Also, browser-based UIs will be > much easie

Re: [GNUnet-developers] GSoC

2016-02-26 Thread carlo von lynX
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 01:04:01PM +0200, Daniel Golle wrote: > Why are you specifying it to HTTP-based at all? Are all browsers able to use localhost bus solutions and sockets? > I believe a *re-usable* JSON-RPC, which could either be accessed via > HTTP but just as well using a local socket or

Re: [GNUnet-developers] GSoC

2016-02-27 Thread carlo von lynX
Hello again, Dan & Martin! On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 04:48:10PM +0200, Daniel Golle wrote: > > Great. We already have an extensive jspsyc library that we used in > > the psyczilla add-on for mozilla. It uses native sockets. > > That's the kinda stuff I was thinking of. JSON is useful beyond HTTP.

Re: [GNUnet-developers] GSoC

2016-02-27 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 01:01:01PM +0100, Martin Schanzenbach wrote: > At this point, if your GNUnet node does not expose the API over REST > you are welcome to use sockets/custom JSON-RPC in your code for mobile > (Android) and browser (JS) but then say hello to the year 1998. > Today, apps commun

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-03-07 Thread carlo von lynX
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 01:26:02PM +0100, Christian Grothoff wrote: > Dear all, > > GNU has been approved by Google to participate in GSoC 2016. For GNUnet, > we have currently four ideas proposed. If you are interested in working > on these, let us know. Also, if you want to point other people to

Re: [GNUnet-developers] GSoC

2016-03-07 Thread carlo von lynX
Thanks Martin for the in-depth reply. Thanks Andrew for the good news that dbus does not do XML all the time. ;) I would like to suggest one more GSoC job to submit: Fix the following bugs so we can release GNUnet: https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=3994 https://gnunet.org/b

[GNUnet-developers] Catching printf mistakes / Refactoring vs Rust

2016-05-04 Thread carlo von lynX
I just noticed this bugfix. Thanks, Bart, for finding it! On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 08:38:45PM +0200, gnu...@gnunet.org wrote: >if (size != ntohs (msg->size)) >{ > LOG (GNUNET_ERROR_TYPE_WARNING, > - "UDP malformed message header from %s\n", > + "UDP malformed message (s

[GNUnet-developers] Catching printf mistakes / Refactoring vs Rust

2016-05-04 Thread carlo von lynX
I just noticed this bugfix. Thanks, Bart, for finding it! On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 08:38:45PM +0200, gnu...@gnunet.org wrote: >if (size != ntohs (msg->size)) >{ > LOG (GNUNET_ERROR_TYPE_WARNING, > - "UDP malformed message header from %s\n", > + "UDP malformed message (s

Re: [GNUnet-developers] [tor-talk] Design of next-generation Tor systems

2016-07-02 Thread carlo von lynX
) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 Le 01/07/2016 à 14:02, carlo von lynX a écrit : > Just thought.. strange.. Aymeric never bails out of a discussion, > and guess what, I overlooked his reply! Here we go. Maybe we can continue off the list since the discussion is going into specific d

[GNUnet-developers] Reverse resolution of VPN/GNS

2016-11-04 Thread carlo von lynX
This summer I reported https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=4625 > For many kinds of applications we need to authenticate incoming connections > as coming from a certain person or at least from a certain peer. The exit > daemon is currently not providing a way to find out who is calling. Resolvin

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Reverse resolution of VPN/GNS

2016-11-04 Thread carlo von lynX
Hello Martin, long time no see. Sorry if this sounded like a rant, I'm just surprised that after six years gnunet and secushare still don't know each other as well as they should... On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 06:46:36PM +0100, Martin Schanzenbach wrote: > Yes, this is what reverse resolution is for.

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Reverse resolution of VPN/GNS

2016-11-04 Thread carlo von lynX
> Definitively not. Neither the psycstore nor the existing > namestore/namecache have the operation needed for what Martin is > thinking about on the blog. However, the operation *you* are thinking > about would be local. Yes, doing it locally is the proper way to do it and requiring people to ex

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Reverse resolution of VPN/GNS

2016-11-04 Thread carlo von lynX
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 11:20:45PM +0100, Martin Schanzenbach wrote: > I see now that the public part does not fit into social/psyc. But I do No, no. It is no problem to do public applications using pubsub, but I see no constructive use case for your technological idea. > not fully agree with you

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Reverse resolution of VPN/GNS

2016-11-05 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 01:02:30PM +0100, Martin Schanzenbach wrote: > Hmm can you explain why you think that? I think what he tried to say is > that basically GNS delegations are not needed in the secushare design > as rendezvous/places are used for introductions leading to .gnu > names anyway. al

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Reverse resolution of VPN/GNS

2016-11-05 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 04:51:03PM +0100, carlo von lynX wrote: > You made a political statement about any computer having a right to > communicate with any other computer, no matter if there is any social > connection between the owners. It is the foundation of a whole new class o

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Reverse resolution of VPN/GNS

2016-11-05 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 06:29:40PM +0100, Martin Schanzenbach wrote: > Okay got. But then you don't need GNS. As in: at all.  There is certainly a lot of conceptual duplication, but then again there are constellations where GNS makes more sense than distributed pubsubs. We found in one particular

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Reverse resolution of VPN/GNS

2016-11-06 Thread carlo von lynX
[OT] First of all, sorry if anything I write ends up sounding unlike the easy peacy chilled out way it sounds when I write it up. I have a bad habit of pushing people verbally, put it is always meant in a constructive motivating way... which I know can easily backfire.. it's a problem of the Intern

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Reverse resolution of VPN/GNS

2016-11-07 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 09:57:12PM +0100, Christian Grothoff wrote: > Carlo, the paper Martin send me about this is this one: > > http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.131.9709&rep=rep1&type=pdf > > So it's neither exactly internal to the cooperation nor simple > authentication

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Project proposal: The GNUnet of autonomous Things

2016-11-23 Thread carlo von lynX
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:30:37PM +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > This sounds interesting. Yes, Daniel.. keep up that good work you are doing! > 3. What would be the difference to for example IoTvity, openHAB and > other existing solutions? Haven't seen an answer from Daniel and maybe you find t

[GNUnet-developers] New comparison: Broken vs GNU Internet

2016-12-01 Thread carlo von lynX
news: secushare participated at fiffkon with a nice booth: http://secushare.cheettyiapsyciew.onion/img/fiffkon2016.jpeg and we discussed with visitors a lot about the broken and the gnu internet, driven by the illustration that puts the two in comparison: http://secushare.cheettyiapsyci

Re: [GNUnet-developers] [OpenWrt] Project proposal: The GNUnet of autonomous Things

2016-12-06 Thread carlo von lynX
On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 03:28:19PM +0100, Drasko DRASKOVIC wrote: > For decentralization - this is worh loking: > https://safenetforum.org/t/maidsafe-and-gnunet-comparison/2779. Huh.. there is no description of gnunet on that page at all. dirvine explains some things of maidsafe that sound like th

[GNUnet-developers] HOWTO gnunet-vpn and gnunet-exit with shared secrets

2016-12-12 Thread carlo von lynX
Picking up an old thread since there has been some misunderstanding of what was said here: On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 03:50:19PM +0200, Christian Grothoff wrote: > On 05/05/2016 02:29 PM, Daniel Golle wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > > > I got a bunch of questions about the subsystems mentioned above: >

Re: [GNUnet-developers] New comparison: Broken vs GNU Internet

2016-12-17 Thread carlo von lynX
Hello eternal traveller! On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 10:59:53AM +0100, hellekin wrote: > On 12/01/2016 07:27 PM, carlo von lynX wrote: > > > > http://secushare.cheettyiapsyciew.onion/broken-internet > > Nice. Why is faceboogle yellow? Is that to say it's compatible o

Re: [GNUnet-developers] GNUnet in Whonix

2016-12-21 Thread carlo von lynX
Strange, why on Earth would spamassassin put the two replies to the mail into the SPAM folder? > pts rule name description > -- -- > 2.7 DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBLRBL: Envelope sender listed in dnsbl.ahbl.org > 1

[GNUnet-developers] after congress event in berlin?

2016-12-22 Thread carlo von lynX
I received the offer from Humboldt University to host an YBTI/WeFix... type of event at their facilities just after new year's eve. How many of you hackers are planning to spend NYE in Berlin and would like to meet people interested in what we are doing? We can do talks, workshops, hack sessions..

Re: [GNUnet-developers] after congress event in berlin?

2016-12-30 Thread carlo von lynX
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 12:39:37AM +0100, Jeff Burdges wrote: > I'm in Berlin for NYE, so I'm available the 1st and 2nd, but I leave > early on 3 January. Sorry for late reply.. I wasn't getting feedback from my university contact.. looks like the room assignment office is closed until January, t

Re: [GNUnet-developers] GNS domains

2017-02-20 Thread carlo von lynX
The domains do indeed look somewhat neat, but I'm not sceptic regarding first-come-first-served systems that soon become useless if all cool words and brands are squatted.. I think a heuristic what the majority of the social network thinks that "CNN" is would be more accurate in leading people to a

[GNUnet-developers] AGPL is up to us, says RMS

2017-04-07 Thread carlo von lynX
It is up to us to decide whether we want GNUnet to be easily abusable like Android, or offer at least Affero style protection to its users. I raised the worry and Christian first asked RMS for an opinion before we'd bring it here. After some debate, RMS concluded that he'll leave it to us to de

Re: [GNUnet-developers] AGPL is up to us, says RMS

2017-04-14 Thread carlo von lynX
> I support the change to AGPL3. Since no argumentation against the change has surfaced, I guess we can proceed. -- E-mail is public! Talk to me in private using encryption: http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/LynX/ irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/lynX https://psyced.org:

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Tim Berners-Lee, reinventing GNUnet via Solid (sort of)

2017-04-21 Thread carlo von lynX
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 02:56:49PM +0200, Jeff Burdges wrote: > I think Matrix is broadly considered promising, but afaik they cannot do > anything high latency, so metadata leakage galore. Matrix is federated, like XMPP, like e-mail, like Mastodon. Like all federated technologies it will only st

Re: [GNUnet-developers] social

2017-06-21 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 08:10:41PM +0200, Jeff Burdges wrote: > I donno if that article should be taken too seriously, but it suggest Certainly not. Just because one journalist doesn't miss any of his friends when going social, that doesn't mean everyone is anti-social as he is. > the many major

[GNUnet-developers] OT: SCION doesn't know about DHT routing?

2017-06-23 Thread carlo von lynX
Just in case you have heard of a swiss iniative to replace BGP called SCION, https://www.scion-architecture.net - it, too, is presented like a replacement for the current Internet. I found this passage in the FAQ interesting: > Is SCION a source-routed architecture? > > Source routing does not sc

Re: [GNUnet-developers] some bugs to be closed

2017-07-03 Thread carlo von lynX
Could someone who knows how libtool works please fix https://gnunet.org/bugs/view.php?id=5078 so that gnunet can be packaged for distributions with a working GNS? Right now it's a blocker. It should be really easy for anyone familiar with libtool (not me). I don't think we should release a gnunet t

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Dockerfile for the secushare UI interface

2017-07-11 Thread carlo von lynX
Thanksalot. Your git fork has been merged! Thanks also for figuring out that silly crasher in gnunet-social. See you in the chat... :) -- E-mail is public! Talk to me in private using encryption: http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/LynX/ irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/lynX

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Survey for organizing GNUnet in-person meetings

2017-09-26 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 05:26:39PM +0200, t3sserakt wrote: > 1. On which days you will be at the CCC congress (please mark with x): > > - 27th > - 28th > - 29th > - 30th all > 2. Would you be interested on participating a GNUnet all hands meeting > for some days. Let us know how many days you wo

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Troubleshooting CADET

2017-10-26 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 05:42:45PM +0200, Christian Grothoff wrote: > 2) Yes, running in the 'global' network with outdated peers is likely to > cause all kinds of fun problems, as the DHT may or may not work, or in > the worst case the DHT discovers a path which then does not work on the > CADET l

Re: [GNUnet-developers] 34c3 Assembly

2017-11-08 Thread carlo von lynX
Pardon the lack of democracy but the strategy department has chosen that this year we squat the European Commission's hackerspace... Therefore, this year's YBTI/WeMakeUsAGNUOne is called ... https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Assembly:NGI Please edit and sabotage to your liking.

Re: [GNUnet-developers] 34c3 Assembly

2017-12-16 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 12:08:23PM +0100, Christian Grothoff wrote: > "NOTE: Creating Self organized Sessions isn't possible right now. Please > try it later. :)" The situation was similar at the 30c3. I had already collected something like 10 talks in a wiki table on the assembly page before I wa

[GNUnet-developers] Congress Updates

2017-12-26 Thread carlo von lynX
Mary Xmas! https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Assembly:NGI now boasts with several sessions. Bernd has made some large ones on 29th while we made some on 27th because not everyone is available on the 29th. Please feel invited to give us your input and latest news on the 29th (by m

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Decentralized database

2018-01-21 Thread carlo von lynX
Welcome to the little GNUnet world! I've seen fine and appetizing commits regarding gnunet-guile. Thank you! In former times, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > There is also a real-time or near realtime aspect that I would > like to tackle. I could come up with the naming scheme that will > allow to pul

Re: [GNUnet-developers] website and logo rework

2018-01-26 Thread carlo von lynX
This time there aren't dozens of things keeping me from answering in due time! :) Sorry for the delay regarding pubsub. On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 01:07:08AM +0100, amirouche wrote: > I got into creating a new logo for gnunet > logos and mockup at https://imgur.com/a/ZOjNU Fabulous. I didn't dare

Re: [GNUnet-developers] website and logo rework

2018-01-26 Thread carlo von lynX
Martin, we are the minority of people who accepted the gnu on the web... maybe we want to extend our audience to the people that think that such a home- grown logo doesn't stand for professionality? Same goes for the terrible Taler logo? Let Amirouche' creativity go wild, it is going in a totally u

Re: [GNUnet-developers] logo rework + software ethics

2018-02-06 Thread carlo von lynX
Martin, excellent: a CADET logo! :D This guix-derived logo is amazing. For the print version it's enough to remove the backlight effect, so no big deal. So from my understanding of logo design this thing is compliant. Krumelmonster's are also very neat, but I perceive the gnu as too prominent -

Re: [GNUnet-developers] hooks

2018-02-13 Thread carlo von lynX
Just when I wanted to remind the user of the surveillance IRC that they can get anonymous git notifications if they log into psyced.org and issue '+subscribe git' from within #gnunet. On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:59:34PM +, n...@crash.cx wrote: > > remote: WARNING: repo-specific-hooks: > > '/hom

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Goodbye ".gnu"

2018-03-04 Thread carlo von lynX
I generally welcome this new development, although On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 08:45:51AM +0100, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote: > > 1) IETF doesn't want us to use those, having rejected our draft for 4+ > > years now, so clearly trying to play nice doesn't work. Which isn't surprising at all that they g

[GNUnet-developers] Is the DHT enumerable?

2018-03-31 Thread carlo von lynX
I think I remember that either the answer is no, or that the way GNUnet uses its DHT ensures that it is not a problem. I am asking to know whether it is an aspect we need to keep an eye on when designing new DHT apps, given the terrible experiences seen with the Tor, Retroshare and Bittorrent proj

Re: [GNUnet-developers] website and logo rework

2018-05-19 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 04:45:06PM +0200, Christian Grothoff wrote: > I think this is the time where I have to disclose a major unfortunate > development (but which may be resolved soon without too much drama). So how did it end? > Thus, I think that choosing a logo that may remotely resemble a l

[GNUnet-developers] logo rework

2018-06-24 Thread carlo von lynX
Ladies and gentlemen, from the heights of the swiss mountains comes a sense of decentralised consensus regarding the beauty of things. I picked one of amirouche's most promosing designs (thanks for the svg!), changed the horns and head to look a bit more like a gnu and less like a 'V', changed so

Re: [GNUnet-developers] logo rework

2018-06-26 Thread carlo von lynX
Thanks for the kind words or rather.. I'm glad you're agreeing with us on most of this! On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 09:20:58AM +0200, hyazin...@emailn.de wrote: > I'm wondering a bit about the text not being 'GNUnet', but 'gnu:net'. Wasn't > consensus in case of text application, that it should be 'G

Re: [GNUnet-developers] The General Color Scheme of GNUnet

2018-06-26 Thread carlo von lynX
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 07:55:26PM +0200, Phil Buschmann wrote: > the last mails on this mailing list discussed design of the logo and the > website but I was thinking of another important design question: > As it is kind of my work to design a website for the rest API of GNUnet > (GSoC), I want to

[GNUnet-developers] uk.gnunet.org

2018-10-17 Thread carlo von lynX
Received this message from a supporter: hey, I lack the time to chase this and I figure you have the right contacts to chase this, googling gnunet from the UK (you can try via google.co.uk) yields uk.gnunet.org as the first result. which wouldn't seem so bad, but combined with t

[GNUnet-developers] Google has been kicked out of Kreuzberg

2018-10-24 Thread carlo von lynX
You may find this off-topic but I find it motivating to not give up the fight. ___ GNUnet-developers mailing list GNUnet-developers@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers

[GNUnet-developers] 'Sealed Senders' in CADET

2018-10-30 Thread carlo von lynX
Moxie's recent blog post is making the rounds: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/ (You may not need to read it to make sense of this mail). In the case of Signal it still has two defects: the way the clients always talk to the same server over the same TLS connection, so the cloud service is t

Re: [GNUnet-developers] 'Sealed Senders' in CADET

2018-11-03 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 10:06:36PM +0100, Christian Grothoff wrote: > TLDR: one could do this, but would likely be bad for performance and to > achieve strong privacy we need it on another layer. Excellent and convincing argumentation as always. Thank you. ___

Re: [GNUnet-developers] A Graph Database for secushare

2019-03-24 Thread carlo von lynX
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 07:40:15PM +0100, amirouche wrote: > This is a follow up thread about my attempt to build a peer-to-peer graph > database on top of gnunet. My initial thoughts are documented at [0]. > [0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnunet/2014-01/msg0.html Oh, couple of ye

Re: [GNUnet-developers] A Graph Database for secushare

2019-03-27 Thread carlo von lynX
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:55:56AM +0100, amirouche wrote: > tl;dr: yes, I would like to join the secushare effort. good summary, as it is a long read below :D sorry for delay... other things on my mind... other secusharors are welcome to chip into this conversation!! > There might be a confusio

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Hello! (brief introduction and lots of questions)

2019-07-04 Thread carlo von lynX
One month late, but what do you expect from a guy gone arty. > > ### 1: How might I "serve" files? Should secushare step out of its unvoluntary condition of vaporware, then there would be a pub-sub API which actively pushes content to all subscribers (unlike the humbug they've put into IPFS in th

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Hello! (brief introduction and lots of questions)

2019-07-07 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 03:23:48PM +, Olie Ayre wrote: > Thanks for taking time to answer my questions! "Late" or otherwise, they're > still helpful :) GReat! > The "pub-sub" approach makes a lot of sense. I think you explaining that sort > of helped it > click. So if I'm understanding corr

Re: [GNUnet-developers] GNUnet meetup at Chaos Communication Camp 2019

2019-08-22 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:44:26AM +0200, rexxnor wrote: > Due to popular demand from the people at camp I submitted a self > organized session for the camp. That's heartwarming to see. <3 Saturday I have to be downtown pretty much immediately after the time of that session. Unlikely I'll make i

Re: GNUnet project invited to ICANN66

2019-11-04 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 12:20:34PM +0100, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote: > We are delighted to announce that ICANN has invited the GNUnet project to > speak at the next ICANN Annual General Meeting [1]. We have been invited to > join a panel discussion on Emerging Internet Identifier Technologies in

CADET protocol: Anna or Betty?

2020-01-03 Thread carlo von lynX
Why Anna? Because Alice sounds too much like it's about crypto! Greetings from the secushare workshop. We're discussing the implications of the protocol design bug regarding that Alice (Anna) or Betty logic by which if the channel breaks and Betty wants to re-open it, then she can't actually do an

Re: CADET protocol: Anna or Betty?

2020-01-03 Thread carlo von lynX
On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 10:28:02PM +0900, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote: > That sounds like it allows anyone to highjack any (established) channel > after a successful kx. Oh, transport does not guarantee the identity of nodes so CADET has to handle authentication itself... great. Still, an attacker

Re: Open questions regarding new messenger and secushare and organization Was: Make GNUnet Great Again

2020-11-15 Thread carlo von lynX
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:36:21PM +0100, Christian Grothoff wrote: > gtk+: I'm still undecided ;-). Since most of GNUnet apps have nothing to do with file sharing, all of file sharing would deserve its own repo. That implies a split of gnunet-gtk. > > - Is "messenger" a part of "secushare"? > >

Re: Re: Open questions regarding new messenger and secushare and organization Was: Make GNUnet Great Again

2020-11-16 Thread carlo von lynX
Sorry if as usual I sounded more harsh/bitter than I actually am. On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:54:49AM +0900, Martin Schanzenbach wrote: > We do have a "hidden" roadmap (not 100% up to date anymore): > https://gnunet.org/en/roadmap.html We have one as well… similarly hidden: https://secushare.org/p

Re: The messenger service is ready to use

2021-03-06 Thread carlo von lynX
That sounds pretty awesome!!! Does it also work in the wild or only within testbed simulations? Does it have any sorts of server component or does it manage to distribute state in the gnunet? The feature list sounds a lot like things that were supposed to go into secushare but we didn't get there

Re: The messenger service is ready to use

2021-03-06 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 04:09:17PM +0100, TheJackiMonster wrote: > I'm not currently sure if we should use JSON (which is more common in > current web) or use PSYC (which would be more efficient). The service > itself should allow both, so this would probably be something to decide > on application

Re: The messenger service is ready to use

2021-03-06 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 06:55:21PM +0100, TheJackiMonster wrote: > Files will most likely be shared through the FS submodule of GNUnet. > They get encrypted and the key for decryption gets shared through the > messenger service. That's quite similar to the implementation of > Threema except this is

Re: The messenger service is ready to use

2021-03-07 Thread carlo von lynX
Good morning! > > Super inefficient for small pieces of data I would assume, > > and introducing so much latency that in the end it feels > > slower than using the web. When simple things arrive in-band > > you can display them immediately. I'd rather use FS for > > things >1M. On Sat, Mar 06, 20

Re: The messenger service is ready to use

2021-03-09 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 12:23:31PM +0100, TheJackiMonster wrote: > Waiting for the completion of a message is far worse for most users > than looking at dynamic previews or states from my experience. Because > you can't expect the people to be physically separated while > sending/receiving a messag

Re: The messenger service is ready to use

2021-03-20 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:38:56PM +0100, Lukas Schmidt wrote: > >>> Sure, you could argue that most centralized services probably just > >>> visualize an option of deletion or modification while keeping the > >>> old > >>> state stored anyway. But I would like to actually provide this > >>> functi

Re: Secushare chat is down.

2021-08-15 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 02:06:21PM +0200, Tobias Platen wrote: > I'm interested in contibuting to gnunet-secushare, so I tried joining the > chat on psyced.org. But that one does not work. > > Secure Connection Failed > > An error occurred during a connection to psyced.org:3. SSL received a

Re: Planning to continue working on Secushare

2021-09-23 Thread carlo von lynX
Tobias, so happy to hear that your hands-on on the matter! Everything t3sserakt warns about is unfortunately true - after all the effort put into those subsystems we don't know if they have a chance of delivering what we need at any happy point in the future. Some additional thoughts on what t3sser

Re: Planning to continue working on Secushare

2021-09-23 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 10:29:02AM +0200, TheJackiMonster wrote: > Because the messenger service was mentioned I thought I could try to > clarify. I'm unsure if it's the proper back-end for secushare but > technically speaking you can just think of it as layer on top of CADET > to form groups using

Re: Planning to continue working on Secushare

2021-09-23 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:05:06AM +0200, carlo von lynX wrote: > The circular topology of end points *does* satisfy the secushare > expectations on privacy and metadata privacy in particular AFAICT, > so that's very cool. Whoopsa I'm posting faster than I am thinking, sorry. N

Idea: Owning Artworks On GNUnet using Non-Fungible Hashes

2022-01-09 Thread carlo von lynX
As much as I notoriously doubt that the end-to-end encryption Whatsapp actually stops agencies from having any insight, I appreciate Moxie's recent dive into the world of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html I heard similar doubts from CCC people la

Re: Idea: Owning Artworks On GNUnet using Non-Fungible Hashes

2022-01-10 Thread carlo von lynX
Heya Jeff, happy new year... On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 03:52:41PM +0100, Jeff Burdges wrote: > Moxie loves talking about platforms vs protocols, but really only legacy > cruft like Bitcoin and Ethereum adopted this non-upgradeable protocol > bullshit fairy tails, and even Ethereum wants to upgrade

Re: Message contents: Pijul, PSYC, etc.

2022-01-10 Thread carlo von lynX
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 07:49:48PM +0100, Jeff Burdges wrote: > I’ve forgotten what PSYC does.. I vaguely recall key values pairs ala HTML.. > I’ve no real idea why a key-value abstraction helps in messaging. Check out t3sserakt's talk explaining modeling the many facets of visibility of profil

Re: Semantics of GNUNET_PSYC_OP_AUGMENT, GNUNET_PSYC_OP_DIMINISH, and GNUNET_PSYC_OP_UPDATE.

2022-01-24 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 09:03:36AM +0100, Tobias Platen wrote: > I had a quick look at the gnunet psycstore, which is part of the > musticast implementation. ASSIGN is already implemented, Thank you for taking a look. Oh yes, I find it should really be called musticast rather than multicast.. ;)

Re: gnunet-psyc multicast

2022-01-25 Thread carlo von lynX
Hello Loki! On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 11:55:02AM +0200, Loki Schmidt (They/Them) wrote: > https://git.gnunet.org/bibliography.git/plain/docs/gnunet-psyc.pdf > > I have always been curious about the multicast implementation of > PSYC, does it run on top of CADET or is it a parallel service or is > i

Re: printf-like output for gnunet-search

2022-02-07 Thread carlo von lynX
Thank you, madmurphy! I think several of the gnunet CLI tools need improvements of this kind, actually. I vaguely remember doing similar edits somewhere - making outputs friendly to parse. On Sat, Feb 05, 2022 at 08:09:02AM +, madmurphy wrote: >1. What do you think about the fact that I ha

Re: Looking to contribute to GNUnet

2024-03-07 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 12:49:07PM +0530, valdaarhun wrote: > Or how's the idea of writing a new communicator plugin for > TNG? For eg., a plugin for XMPP [4]? I am not sure if this needed > in GNUnet. I thought I would put my idea out there to get some > feedback. I tried to pretend not having se

Re: GNUnet 0.21.0 released

2024-03-07 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 02:15:02PM +, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote: > This release marks a noteworthy milestone in that it includes a > completely new transport layer. Congrats!!! > - There are known major design issues in the CORE subsystems which > will need to be addressed in the future

unsuitable protocols and standards that block innovation

2024-03-11 Thread carlo von lynX
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 10:30:07AM +0200, em...@msavoritias.me wrote: > XMPP can work fine through p2p. Its just not being done a lot because of > other reasons i can expand if needed. Yes, you can rewrite any protocol radically enough to cook rice or iron your shirts but then you are really just

Re: unsuitable protocols and standards that block innovation

2024-03-12 Thread carlo von lynX
Moin Martin, On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 06:26:09AM +, Martin Schanzenbach wrote: > - Hiding in "common" Internet traffic: e.g. if two peers communicate > via HTTPS (and assuming we can obfuscate the traffic patterns of the > applications in GNUnet), they look like browser/web server to an > atta

Re: unsuitable protocols and standards that block innovation

2024-03-12 Thread carlo von lynX
Hi Sahil, On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 02:37:36AM +0530, Sahil wrote: > This looks very interesting. "Multicast distribution trees" is a new topic for > me. I'll read up on this too. It's the way how cloud technologies achieve scalability, and it is the biggest failure of the free world that it let fr

Re: unsuitable protocols and standards that block innovation

2024-03-15 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 01:26:18PM +0530, Sahil wrote: > Sorry for the delayed response. I was trying to wrap my head around > this. That's the most noble thing to say and all the reason why asynchronous messaging was invented in the first place. :) > Thank you for your reply. I am able to make

Re: unsuitable protocols and standards that block innovation

2024-03-15 Thread carlo von lynX
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 02:32:51PM +0200, MSavoritias wrote: > - XMPP uses the XEP 0313 which is basically a protocol to retrieve messages. > Where these messages stored is left as an exercise to the reader although > most people use servers including secushare it seems which made my interest > in

Re: unsuitable protocols and standards that block innovation

2024-03-16 Thread carlo von lynX
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 04:19:21PM +0200, MSavoritias wrote: > By servers I mean a separate machine that is used to run services non > graphically that usually needs to be always online. No, there are machines that *need* to be online, but there are always human beings that *like* to have machines

Re: unsuitable protocols and standards that block innovation

2024-03-17 Thread carlo von lynX
> On 3/16/24 17:08, carlo von lynX wrote: > > No, there are machines that *need* to be online, but there are > > always human beings that *like* to have machines always online > > even if they don't need it for GNUnet. On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 07:54:56PM +0200, MSavor

Re: Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) anyone?

2024-05-08 Thread carlo von lynX
On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 06:25:45PM +0200, Valentin Gagarin wrote: > curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh -s -- --daemon Blind execution of something potentially corrupted coming from the Internet, and by use of a pipe you don't even have a way to retroactively find out if your system has