[Paul Gardner-Stephen] > Hello all, Hi. Very pleased to hear from you, and very valuable to learn about the current status of the Serval project. I hope we can make sure a Freedombox mesh will provide the Serval project with a mesh to communicate on. :)
> So some clarification here: > > Serval used to use the original layer-3 batman, and can still coexist with > batman, batman-adv, babel, olsrd etc. But Serval now includes its own mesh > routing protocol, for many of the reasons that are stimulating discussion > here. Right. Where is the source for this new protocol available? Is it a kernel module or a user space implementation? > This security platform was recently recognised at the Global Security > Challenge grand-final in London where we received an Honourable Mention, > coming a close second in the entire competition -- against entrants from > the USA, UK, Israel and other major players in the security space. > > We do not rest on our laurels, nor do we take the praise of men as meaning > that we have a perfect or vulnerability-free system. But we do believe > that we have created something that has great potential in the open-source > world, and especially for projects like Freedom Box where private > correspondence (text, voice and data) on a fully-distributed > self-organising network is a major objective. Great. How hard would it be to create a Serval based soft phone on Debian? Which part of the source is needed, and which part can be ignored? > > As mentioned, because all Serval services operate in parallel to > IP, this means you can mix and match Serval service with your > favourite traditional mesh routing protocols should you wish to use > them. Very cool. :) > We think that we have some interesting technologies that are of use > to this community, and of course since we develop them as free and > open-source software, we encourage this community to take whatever > they find useful, and perhaps even open a conversation for us to > work out what activities and efforts are in the intersection of our > needs and objectives, and apply some combined energy that will > accelerate our mutual progress towards our goals. Very good. Are you on IRC (#freedombox on irc.debian.org)? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
