Reticulum Network

Created on 2023-03-25T20:31:11-05:00

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Looks like another PKI flood network.

"Destinations" are a key somewhere in the network where messages can be sent. There is no "source address" for packets, you must provide a destination if you want a reply and a user may have more than one of these.

Announcement messages broadcast a key and implicit location of the "destination," such that it can move around the world.

Nodes do not need to know the full path to a destination; they store a direction to get a message "closer" to the destination. (Quinn: Though presumably the NSA can still devise a way to cheat this?)

There are crypto keys used to ensure packets can't be forged without the forgery being caught; ex. an announcer signs their latest announcement. This presumably gets repeated with a counter and flooded so nodes can learn which direction to forward messages.