[guardian-dev] Gilgamesh, FireChat etc

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Hello Nathan,

Root would not be required to use this transport.

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).

Paul.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Nathan of Guardian <
nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014, at 06:48 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have been following the discussion about FireChat, Gilgamesh and the
> > really interesting ideas in it for using bluetooth device names to
> > transfer
> > data.
> >
> > As someone pointed out, this transport could be fairly easily used by
> > Serval's Rhizome store-and-forward protocol, and this is something that I
> > am actively trying to find the means to make happen.  Once we can make
> > this
> > work, MeshMS (end-to-end encrypted and authenticated text messaging) and
> > other Rhizome-based services will come for free.  If anyone is interested
> > in helping us add support for this into Serval Mesh, we would welcome it.
> >
> > Paul Gardner-Stephen.
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> How would this affect the root requirement?
>
> Thanks for the interest and support!
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