Hacker News: Evanito

New comment by Evanito in "Briar Is in Maintenance Mode"

Evanito — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:34:39 +0000

> P.S. feature request! If Alice, Bob and Charlie are all contacts with each other, and Alice writes an offline message to Charlie, Alice should be able to opportunisticly hand the encrypted message to Bob on their shared network, and Bob can deliver it to Charlie.

This is intentionally only included in Forum-mode chats in Briar. Over direct message, leaking contacts is considered a breach of security. (Your definition of "leak" may differ.) In group messages, only the group admin is considered trusted, and every message must go directly to or come from them.

In every security tradeoff, Briar chose the option that maximizes security, even considering how the airwave transmission times might be fingerprintable as Briar traffic.

Not saying any of this is a good way to make a useable app for wide adoption, but it is intentional and highly opinionated.

New comment by Evanito in "Briar is in maintenance mode"

Evanito — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:27:13 +0000

Briar supports sending images. Source: user

New comment by Evanito in "Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack"

Evanito — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:56:37 +0000

> Does anybody know how good routing in this Project protected from malicious actors, or simply badly configured nodes?

Reticulum requires you to manually define your uplinks, including remote servers. If this remote server is blackholing your traffic, you are SOL.

If you define multiple remote servers, then you may be in luck iff your destination is advertising its route on a path (chain of servers) that has no such hostile nodes.

New comment by Evanito in "Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack"

Evanito — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:51:01 +0000

> I've never seen a bigger network with Reticulum in the wild.

Bigger than.. what?

> One of the main reasons of the communities not jumping onto the ship was that it's mostly a one-man-pr...

Reticulum does not support group chats. Which is a far more realistic explanation than suggesting the average user cares what the commit messages are.

New comment by Evanito in "Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack"

Evanito — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:08:01 +0000

A few years back, I ran Yggdrasil (poorly) over LoRa using a then-available experimental Meshtastic IP tunnel. Reticulum supports text-only websites (in the NomadNet software), and I have tested how these load over LoRa links. Loading time on a single hop (lab conditions) isn't half bad, honestly. My point in telling you this is that much of the mesh networking space is proof of concepts and poor executions, which often must happen first before elegant solutions to real problems can form.

My 2¢ on why Meshtastic is so popular (despite its many flaws) is because the original developer decided to implement a solution for a real use case.

New comment by Evanito in "Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack"

Evanito — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:27:38 +0000

For starters, Reticulum can communicate over a Yggdrasil network natively, but no one has yet implemented a Yggdrasil link over Reticulum as far as I am aware.

New comment by Evanito in "My First Meshtastic Network"

Evanito — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:16:19 +0000

You can find that here in the Layer 2 section: https://meshtastic.org/docs/overview/mesh-algo/

In short, all messages are sent within windows, which include waiting periods within which the broadcasting node listens for any other node to rebroadcast the same message. Upon seeing the message be rebroadcast, it stops attempting to send.

New comment by Evanito in "Why yewtu.be was down: Data loss after being shut down by Oracle Cloud"

Evanito — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:44:18 +0000

Have tried this out, and yes actually using it in any capacity risks an account ban with no recourse. Easy come, easy go. (I was running an IPFS node, which at the time was CPU and bandwidth expensive)

New comment by Evanito in "Brave launches 1.0"

Evanito — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 02:15:28 +0000

> It’s just a renderer that calls home with hardcoded references to Google’s services.

And unless you believe in ghosts putting the calls home back when you aren't looking, that isn't a problem for Brave [1].

[1]: https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traff...