I've been thinking about what it takes to create a protocol for peers to publish and subscribe to content in a decentralised manner, while having their footprints (metadata) protected from outside actors.
The goal of the protocol would not be to share/route high amounts of data through the network, but rather to exchange short messages through a content-based pubsub mechanism.
The metadata-resistant could probably be achieved by using the Ricochet protocol, but I still need to research how the pubsub p2p overlay would sit on top of Ricochet.
Applications:
P2P content discovery network where peers search and subscribe to content published by other peers in the network. This network would not leak any metadata from peers activities. The peers publish and subscribe pointers to other online content, so the amount of data to exchange in the network is minimum.
I've been thinking about what it takes to create a protocol for peers to publish and subscribe to content in a decentralised manner, while having their footprints (metadata) protected from outside actors.
The goal of the protocol would not be to share/route high amounts of data through the network, but rather to exchange short messages through a content-based pubsub mechanism.
The metadata-resistant could probably be achieved by using the Ricochet protocol, but I still need to research how the pubsub p2p overlay would sit on top of Ricochet.
Applications:
More on this application in this repository.