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PeterL: mircea_popescu: you said a replacement for gribble auth was in the works, were you referring to "gossipd" or a more readily available something else, like using assbot for auth?
mike_c: aren't you writing gossipd? we need it yesterday :)
undata read the gossipd logs; maybe that will have to save us
davout: the earlier convo about gossipd was pretty interesting
mircea_popescu: "Gossipd is an implementation of MQTT 3.1 broker written in Go. MQTT is an excellent protocal for mobile messaging."
assbot: luanjunyi/gossipd · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1wWsNlN )
asciilifeform: https://github.com/luanjunyi/gossipd << lol
mircea_popescu: all this stemmed from hanbot's comment on the gossipd article which was supposed to be like 120kb.
BingoBoingo: A current trust slut doesn't have the gossipd burden of getting its owner's actual orfices pounded.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "pay me 1 btc, if youdon't say anything stupid for a whole month you get it back" << The way I understand gossipd... fair collateral seems closer to 15-20 BTC
BingoBoingo: The burden of impressing to get a connect to a gossipd node for the casual I imagine will be much higher than getting a !up nao.
BingoBoingo: Well, it's the sort of diversion gossipd will render largely irrelevant.
ben_vulpes: i imagine a steady-state future where people operate gossipd cells in much the same way that ircd's are operated on fleanode.
ben_vulpes: gossipd when
artifexd: mircea_popescu: Regarding gossipd, do you have any preference for the data flowing over the wire as binary or text?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah. the skeleton in the RFC wasn't as revealing as the conversation was. gossipd putting the emphasis on Relay in IRC
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] and if i am in your list and you in mine the same is preserved by gossipd. << means that if you want everything you say on the record, operate a server for your identity.
asciilifeform: gossipd proposes a scheme more akin to the traditional 'cell' organizations of revolutions, etc
mircea_popescu: now apply the same analysis to gossipd.
mircea_popescu: wheras as proposed, gossipd makes the enemy outright impossible.
mircea_popescu: i dun see how any of these are serious avenues to attack gossipd.
assbot: 0 results for 'gossipd' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=gossipd
artifexd: !s gossipd
mircea_popescu: i meant, what do you do to gossipd obvbiously.
asciilifeform: signed gossipd or not.
artifexd: As a currently running gossipd, if I get a connection request with "I'm bob. Here's proof", then I accept the connection and add that ip address to my list for that key. (For later connecting to him)
artifexd: I would think that instead of a list of ip addresses you would have a list of pubkeys and each pubkey has one (or more) ip addresses assigned to it. When you start up gossipd, it calls out to all the ip addresses in the lists and says "I'm bob, proven by this signature. Prove you are alice, with cryptoproof". If the answering box responds appropriately, ☟︎
mircea_popescu: consider a bunch of chatlogs from gossipd presented in court.
mircea_popescu: you can call bullshit in the gossipd as well.
mircea_popescu: i still can't possibly see what flaw you perceive with the wot part of gossipd
mircea_popescu: and if i am in your list and you in mine the same is preserved by gossipd.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'gossipd' << see 'gossip protocols', very interesting subfield in maths.