On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Ximin Luo <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/10/14 10:24, Trevor Perrin wrote: > >> It would be good to have an algorithm that works for transports where >> there isn't a server seeing all messages and providing reliable >> retransmission (e.g. SMS, Google Cloud Messaging, email, Pond). But >> even where a server is available for this, the reliability you're >> asking for is costly. >> > > I *have* an algorithm that works without a central server. I did not try to > optimise for "least messages", or "small message sizes", though - because I > don't know what I should be optimising for.
In an asynchronous setting you can't assume other parties are online to retransmit. With no central server to retransmit, how does your algorithm work? Trevor _______________________________________________ Messaging mailing list [email protected] https://moderncrypto.org/mailman/listinfo/messaging
