Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack(github.com)
61 pointsby brogu3 hours ago7 comments
  • samantp9 minutes ago
    Looks great. Does it need all users to install Reticulum, or app/service prividers (online shop etc) on Reticulum can make their services available for access via browsers?
  • 405nm2 hours ago
    it hit version 1.0.0 this summer and it works!

    to get started easily, check out meshchat:

    https://github.com/liamcottle/reticulum-meshchat

    or sideband on android:

    https://github.com/markqvist/Sideband

    you can already send photos and voice chat over lora, and when lora runs out of bandwidth or if there’s no link, the protocol can seamlessly go over any other link type.

  • gaudystead2 hours ago
    I just happened to recently learn about Reticulum from another part of the internet and find it fascinating. Am I correct in thinking that it can basically run on anything that can run arbitrary code and the ability to talk to another device? (seems like it'd even work over serial if one had the determination to make it work)
    • RiverCrochetan hour ago
      - If it runs Python and pip/pipx, and you can pull in the required packages via pip/pipx, it'll run Reticulum.

      - On 32-bit x86 platforms it has to build the PyCA/cryptography module, but works fine after it does that.

      - Reticulum supports a number physical interfaces, serial is one of them. It of course has the "RNode" intefaces for LoRa radios. For Ethernet, there is "AutoInterface" which uses IPv6 autoconfiguration for peer discovery and IPv6 UDP for transport but doesn't rely on DNS, DHCP, or anything else. If your PC, phone, or other involved devices on the same network have IPv6 enabled and no filtering is happening on layer 2 then it's dead simple - any device there will see announces from others and be able to transact with you not doing much more than spinning up MeshChat.

      - Other interface types are TCP client, TCP server, IPv4 UDP, I2P, and a pipe interface. The pipe interface is interesting as it's basically stdin/stdout to an executable of your choice, so you can use that to make Reticulum available over really anything you could dream up, such as an SSH tunnel.

    • hoss14744892 hours ago
      The only fully-functional stack currently available requires Python >= 3.8, which is the main limitation to where it will run. But there’s still a lot you can do with that!
  • gnabgib3 hours ago
    Popular in 2022 (95 points, 15 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30870187
    • elbci3 hours ago
      ... urgently needed now ;)
  • TheCraiggersan hour ago
    Anybody have any experience running this on a tdeck? I'm kinda toying with the idea of ordering a couple just to play with.
  • NewJazz41 minutes ago
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  • ashton314an hour ago
    Sounds like someone is a fan of Anathem!