[talk] nycmesh

[Pete Wright]

On 8/28/18 7:34 AM, John C. Vernaleo wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, Shawn Webb wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:20:05PM -0700, Pete Wright wrote:
>>> this looks neat - anyone participating or have the skinny on this?
>>>
>>> https://nycmesh.net/
>>
>> I'd like to do the same thing for Baltimore, but backing it by
>> anonymization networks like Tor. In order to become a supernode, your
>> node must reliably route all traffic through an anonymization network.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- 
>> Shawn Webb
>> Cofounder and Security Engineer
>> HardenedBSD
>>
>
> It sounds like an interesting idea they have but I wish they weren't 
> dependent on openwrt.  Unless things have changed a lot since I last 
> used it, that was never very good on the stability, reliability, or 
> updateability fronts.


i noticed that as well last night - according to the faq the supernodes 
are just using quagga and BGP which is obviously an ideal candidate for 
OpenBSD or another BSD appliance:

https://nycmesh.net/faq/#firmware

i'm willing to bet they would be keen to get more of the BSD community 
involved :)

-pete

-- 
Pete Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org
@nomadlogicLA