[guardian-dev] Gilgamesh, FireChat etc

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Hello Nathan,

VERY interesting. Let me know what you discover.

Paul.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Nathan of Guardian <
nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014, at 09:07 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:
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> Hello,
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> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Nathan of Guardian <
> nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014, at 08:21 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:
> > Hello Nathan,
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> > Root would not be required to use this transport.
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> > In other words: adding the bluetooth device name transport would allow
> > most
> > stock Android phones to mesh, albeit at low data rates (~1KB/minute), and
> > with limited range (~10metres).
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> 1kb is approx 7 full length tweets or text messages, so sounds good to
> me.
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> Actually, with SMAC, our open-source tweet-compressor, it is between 12
> and 20 full length tweets, depending on their composition.  That said,
> adding in our authentication and meta-data headers, it probably falls back
> to about 5 - 8 authenticated tweets per kilo-byte.
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> Is there any repeater functionality that would extend messages beyond
> 10' as the people/phones move locations?
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> This would be an automatic consequence of the Rhizome protocol, which
> stores and forwards.  The prioritisation algorithm would likely need some
> tweaking, and I am sure there are other surprises that would have to be
> dealt with to make it all work efficiently over many hops, which are
> challenges that I hope we get the chance to face.
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> Great to hear... btw, I just realized we can use the WifiDirect service
> discovery capability to send much longer data than the current SSID/name
> method allows:
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> http://developer.android.com/training/connect-devices-wirelessly/nsd-wifi-direct.html
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> Not sure what the limits are, but it doesn't require you to connect or
> join to be able to broadcast/listen for this info.
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