[guardian-dev] FireChat moved off iOS proprietary mesh to their own xp mesh protocol?

Nathan of Guardian nathan at guardianproject.info
Wed Oct 1 06:07:45 EDT 2014


A random idea... Bluetooth device names can be up to 240 characters
apparently. What if we just used that as a messaging transport?
Essentially just staying in constant discovery mode.


On Tue, Sep 30, 2014, at 10:50 AM, Michael Rogers wrote:
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> There was a BlackHat talk about reverse-engineering Apple's multipeerd
> protocols - perhaps that's been used to build an interoperable
> implementation on Android?
> 
> https://nabla-c0d3.github.io/blog/2014/08/09/my-black-hat-presentation-about-multipeer-connectivity/
> 
> https://nabla-c0d3.github.io/blog/2014/08/20/multipeer-connectivity-follow-up/
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> On 29/09/14 23:09, Josh Steiner wrote:
> > Anyone have any more info about this?
> > 
> > It appears FireChat have moved away from Apple's closed Multipeer 
> > stuff since their messages now work across iOS and Android
> > devices. Rumor is they built their own cross platform protocol on
> > top of bluetooth and wifi, but not much in the way of details yet:
> > 
> > https://opengarden.com/sdk
> > 
> > An open SDK for this, now that would be a great Guardian Project
> > library.
> > 
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