'Endrun' Networks: Help In Danger Zones 28
kierny writes Drawing on networking protocols designed to support NASA's interplanetary missions, two information security researchers have created a networking system that's designed to transmit information securely and reliably in even the worst conditions. Dubbed Endrun, and debuted at Black Hat Europe, its creators hope the delay-tolerant and disruption-tolerant system — which runs on Raspberry Pi — could be deployed everywhere from Ebola hot zones in Liberia, to war zones in Syria, to demonstrations in Ferguson.
So, mesh? (Score:3)
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I don't know why. They aren't jamming the interweb or cell phones. Pgp and email will avoid them listening in for anything subvertive.
And ferguson is just a silly distraction that mainly only got attention to play the race card in november. There has been plenty of other skmilar instances that has gained little to no attention since then and before it. The location was simply convienient there.
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Isn't that really old news....nothing new going on there after the riots/protests finally ended is there?
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So just a mesh network with multipath capability then?
don't forget the interplanetary capability!
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Big mistake... Ebola loves Spam... it's probably multiplying in there right now.
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I hope you mean multiplex. Usually multipath is a bad thing
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I hope you mean multiplex. Usually multipath is a bad thing
No, multipath. If one path is down, you want to be able to route around the failure. Multiplexing is the combination of several channels over a single connection, which it sounds like this also supports.
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It's an old radio signal thing. Generally we don't like multipath.
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I hear 'delay tolerant' and translate it to 'store forward' system. Basically BBS days of communicating but with encryption! In 'war torn' environments store forward would work 'ok'. Just so long as there are few bottlenecks. Which create choke points for your enemy to cut off communications.
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Danger Zone!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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It looks like it relies heavily on store and forward with multiple retries to avoid the problems with poorly connected networks.
(Disclaimer: I did read TFA)
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No, not mesh
From TFA:
"It's built on not having a mesh network, and the reason is a bunch of journalists got killed by missiles that homed in on their satellite phones"
Whooooosh (Score:1)
Start reading up on DMVPN then stretch your mind to see what you could do in a very unreliable network that may be under attack. Think 10x as bad as a 1Mbps Sat link in Africa. There is a need for this.
Next stop, can you think of a low bandwidth, intermittent network that rides on top of your Internet connection? One that smells like an onion?
Last stop, battlefield communications where you have automous UAVs in the middle of electronic warfare.
These are deeper thoughts than bolting on more links, and usuall
Everything old is new again (Score:5, Informative)
Eventually, we just keep rediscovering old concepts. Store-and-forward is basically Zone Mail Hour, and the first time I read about the Deep Space network concepts, all I could think of was interplanetary FidoNet, or WWIVnet.
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We have it already. (Score:2)
It is called radio.
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Syrian rebels and Ebola patients .. (Score:1)
ps: 'mesh network' and 'satellite phones' run on different tec