getting off the grid: communicate using p2p mesh with end to end encryption without any kind of network using android, story of OGConnect

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[ UUID ] 638d260d-373f-40f2-ace6-dab776fe227d

[ Session Name ] getting off the grid: communicate using p2p mesh with end to end encryption without any kind of network using android, story of OGConnect [ Primary Space ] Decentralisation [ Secondary Space ] Privacy and Security

[ Submitter's Name ] Rabimba Karanjai [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Rice University / Mozilla [ Submitter's GitHub ] @rabimba

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[ Language ] Bengali English

[ Localisation Support Requested ] No, I can host the session myself

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What will happen in your session?

In the session, we are going to talk about OGConnect (previously NoConnect).

OGConnect is an opensource project made in spare time and eventually was part of Equal Rating Challenge and Mozilla Open Leadership, that aims to provide a solution for complete off the grid,scalable,resilient,anonymous and end to end encrypted connection between its users without using any network or central server, utilizing p2p mesh network.

It will cover the design decisions behind making the application in a modular fashion showing the p2p,encryption,decentralization,anonymity,off the grid tech stacks. So that if anyone wants to fork or use a module in their own application, they will be able to do that. It ends with a demo and call for participation to the project

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

The goals of the session are:

1. Is to educate why we need decentralized,resilient to monitor,scalable,secure communication.
   • To educate the political and often cultural need for it. Use cases including peaceful protests in universities where authorities tried to cut internet and network (in India) to prevent students getting the word out to investigative journalism.
2. Is to show how using open source, auditable tech stack you can
   • Create or incorporate this nice decentralization,secure and off the grid properties in your own app/communication
   • Use the application OOB to communicate securely between each another off the grid
3. To emphasize this can be a low-cost alternative to satellite phones for natural calamity struck rescue operations and survivors

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Will need a Projector and if possible two android devices (in case the audience has none) to show the demo (along with my own it should be three devices)

Time needed

less than 60 mins

[KadeMorton]

@rabimba thanks for the submission! If you want (but you don't have to), feel free you see if you want to work our zone theme into your session https://github.com/KadeMorton/Xenshana

[rabimba]

@KadeMorton Thanks for pointing that out to me. I can actually have something brewed that attendees can actually use throughout the MOzFest while entering the zone. As I saw the space offers one to be part of four tribes.

In the app I can have four off the grir chat rooms with those names pre created. And anyone while entering the room can get attested (so that they are in that room) and they will be communicate with each other through the p2p mesh as long as they are in Mozfest (near vicinty).

Or even later maybe even in a street when they accidentally come close.

Let me know what you thinks.

Off- Topic: Anyone knows how I can enable comment notification for the issues here? Since mozbot created the issues I am not getting any notification when our attention is needed for any session.

[KadeMorton]

@rabimba there is a subscribe button on the right hand side above participants.

I'll get back to you regarding working in the theme as we progress through the curation process.