[guardian-dev] Gilgamesh, FireChat etc

[Nathan of Guardian]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014, at 08:21 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote:
> 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).


1kb is approx 7 full length tweets or text messages, so sounds good to
me.

Is there any repeater functionality that would extend messages beyond
10' as the people/phones move locations? 

> 
> 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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