[Freedombox-discuss] Identity UI

2012-06-22 Thread Nick M . Daly
So, identity is pretty fundamental to this project. Without identity, privacy is a meaningless concept. The FreedomBox identifies a person or group of people through their keys. People and their keys should be linked, and we should have a UI for managing that. For initial reference, I'd like to

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FBx Configuration Management

2012-06-22 Thread Nick M. Daly
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:16:32 -0400 (EDT), bnewb...@robocracy.org wrote: > > General purpose "Configuration Management" seems to be a crucial component > of the FreedomBox software stack/distribution. It needs to be secure, > accessible (elegant user experience for diverse userbase), reliable, >

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0622 Available

2012-06-22 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, this latest revision of the FreedomBox unstable image makes it significantly easier to get the image onto your DreamPlug: you don't technically need a JTAG any more, if you don't mind opening it up. The latest image is built to boot the system when DDed to a 2GB (or larger) microSD card:

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Mesh Network Simulator

2012-06-22 Thread Ben Mendis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Sam, I am one of the developers of Project Byzantium and heard about this discussion from The Doctor. Freedombox is not our project so we have no authority to direct which way the project goes, but we have done some significant research and develo

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Mesh Network Simulator

2012-06-22 Thread Sam Hartman
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the security implications of this discussion. I think that's in part because goals like censorship-resistant-connectivity and privacy seem in conflict. To the best of my understanding these routing protocols have not been designed with the goal of p

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Mesh Network Simulator

2012-06-22 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/2012 02:13 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > Internet while the problem is happening, to debug it. Many, many > OLPC mesh problems occurred in the field which could not be > replicated in the lab, which made them 10x or 100x harder to fix. > This me

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Mesh Network Simulator

2012-06-22 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/2012 10:12 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > There are plenty of mesh protocols available - 802.11s, batman, > olsr, and my own fav babel. 802.11s operates at layer 2, is limited > to 32 There are over 70 mesh routing protocols; not all of them have bee

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Mesh Network Simulator

2012-06-22 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/2012 10:10 AM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote: > What I'd like is something this flexible: My wife and I are walking > in mall with at least one other person every 40 feet or so. We > decide to separate and go shopping. I walk this way, she walks > t

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Mesh Network Simulator

2012-06-22 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/2012 02:29 PM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote: > The mesh network should be able to route packets from any > geographic location to another, merely by knowing where it (itself) > is, where the packet came from and where it's going. There are > certain

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Mesh Network Simulator

2012-06-22 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/2012 04:16 PM, Markus Sabadello wrote: > I've been told though that olsr is still the way to go for large > networks. Kind of. If the mesh nodes pushing the packets have a fair amount of RAM olsrd is okay. The thing about that particular