<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">IMHO, your public key is well public, so sharing is perfectly fine. Contact tracing is absolutely available, and people should expect that. What it provides is that personal identity would be secure with the private key secured by individual subscribers.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 18, 2020, at 9:24 PM, Yosem Companys <<a href="mailto:ycompanys@gmail.com" class="">ycompanys@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><table class="container" lang="container" dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; width: 1252px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="message-wrapper" style="padding-top: 6px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr" class="">P.S. Is P2P inherently more or less secure than the alternative?<br class=""></div><img align="left" width="0" height="0" src="https://track.mixmax.com/api/track/v2/0LOb8Ifv8vVt4Wpzh/i02bj5CbpFWbnB0c55WYw12bjlnI/IyZy9mLoNWZ052bpRXYyVmYpxmLzR3cpxGQ0xmI/gIUxkI?sc=false" alt="" style="border: 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px;" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class=""><p data-m-apply-default-font="true" class=""><br class=""></p><div class="gmail_extra"><p data-m-apply-default-font="true" class=""><br class=""></p><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 12:55 AM, Yosem Companys<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><a href="mailto:ycompanys@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="word-wrap: normal; word-break: break-word;" class="">ycompanys@gmail.com</a></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><u class=""></u><table valign="top" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" dir="ltr" lang="container" style="width: 1239.71875px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Scuttlebot: Peer-to-peer database, identity provider, and messaging system<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Scuttlebot forms a global cryptographic social network with its peers. Each user is identified by a public key, and publishes a log of signed messages, which other users follow socially.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Scuttlebot searches the P2P mesh for new messages and files from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span data-wpkgv="true" data-ddnwab="PR_1_0" class="">followed</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>users and from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span data-wpkgv="true" data-ddnwab="PR_2_0" class="">FoaFs</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(friend of a friend's). The messages and files are stored locally, indefinitely, for applications to read.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Identity</div><div class="">Users are identified by confirmations and signals in the social graph. This is known as a Web-of-Trust. There is no global registry of usernames. Instead, users name themselves, and share<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span data-wpkgv="true" data-ddnwab="PR_3_0" class="">petnames</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for each other.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Discovery occurs by examining the social graph, or by out-of-band sharing. Applications can analyze the follow-graph, and look for "flag" messages, to determine who is trustworthy in the network.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pub Servers</div><div class="">"Pubs" are bot-users that have public IPs. They follow users and rehost the messages to other peers, ensuring good uptime and no firewall blockage.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pubs have no special privileges, and are not trusted by users. However, because Scuttlebot has no DHT or NAT-traversal utilities, users must "join" a Pub to distribute their messages on the WAN.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Scuttlebot can change Pubs, or join more than one, and sync directly over Wifi. 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