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

[Michael Rogers]

Interesting idea! With old school Bluetooth you can't make an Android device discoverable for more than 2 minutes, and it requires user confirmation each time. But maybe the situation's different with Bluetooth LE? I haven't looked at the API yet.

Cheers,
Michael

Nathan of Guardian <nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:

>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.
>
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>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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