Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antoine Beaupre <anar...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-h...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : reticulum Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Contact: https://github.com/markqvist/ * URL : https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : cryptography-based networking stack for building unstoppable networks with LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi and everything in between Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. It can operate even with very high latency and extremely low bandwidth. Reticulum allows you to build wide-area networks with off-the-shelf tools, and offers end-to-end encryption and connectivity, initiator anonymity, autoconfiguring cryptographically backed multi-hop transport, efficient addressing, unforgeable delivery acknowledgements and more. The vision of Reticulum is to allow anyone to be their own network operator, and to make it cheap and easy to cover vast areas with a myriad of independent, inter-connectable and autonomous networks. Reticulum is not one network. It is a tool for building thousands of networks. Networks without kill-switches, surveillance, censorship and control. Networks that can freely interoperate, associate and disassociate with each other, and require no central oversight. Networks for human beings. Networks for the people. Reticulum is a complete networking stack, and does not rely on IP or higher layers, but it is possible to use IP as the underlying carrier for Reticulum. It is therefore trivial to tunnel Reticulum over the Internet or private IP networks. Having no dependencies on traditional networking stacks frees up overhead that has been used to implement a networking stack built directly on cryptographic principles, allowing resilience and stable functionality, even in open and trustless networks. --- Reticulum is similar to Meshtastic (already packaged in Debian) in that it's a mesh that works that operates over LoRa, except Reticulum's mesh algorithm are more efficient and cryptography is stronger, and it operates over a wider range of backends (more than LoRa!) The reticulum software here is mostly the daemon, to actually send messages, you typically need something like LXMF (a separate library and protocol), meshchat (electron app) or nomadnet (TUI).
