Nathan Freitas: > On 09/26/2012 10:08 AM, meh. wrote: > >> After implementing the torchat protocol and seeing how bad it is, >> but how nice the idea is, I started thinking it would be cool to >> have a more general protocol for P2P use through hidden services. > > This is something we have definitely been considering as a feature or > add-on to Orbot - essentially mobile-to-mobile file sharing, > messaging/voice messaging via hidden services.
Since your plan differ heavily from the thread starter, I'd recommend to sketch your plan and create a new thread if this mail will be oversight. > While we don't need a very complex p2p design (in short, we are mostly > just talking about simple HTTP servers running on each device, behind > a hidden service .onion), I am concerned in the long run about > scalability and reliability of this. It is not unheard of for apps > that work well and do something cool to suddently have 1M+ users, and > already are nearing half that with Orbot. I think that would also require status reports, send, delivered, read (optional). On cellular network the internet connection could go down for a short or longer time. What happens to messages send when the recipient was offline at that point? Without a server... Constantly resending the message would be required? In which time intervals? Try to resend (the first message) every 5 minutes, give up after 2 days and inform about failure? _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
