[liberationtech] recruitment for a decentralized file sharing project

[Aymeric Vitte]

Hi Dmitri,

Probably there can be some synergies with Convergence 
(http://www.peersm.com/Convergence-2020.pdf) "A universal and generic 
architecture to anonymize any application or protocol and turn it into 
an independent decentralized p2p network inside browsers and servers, 
with browsers acting as servers" using https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor

This is a complete redesign of the initial Convergence proposal from 
2015, unlike the initial design it does not specify any longer the upper 
layers, like peers discovery (most likely based on a DHT) and in your 
case the distributed file storage/sharing, the idea is simply 
ouinet.pipe(node-Tor) to secure and anonymize any protocol/app on any 
platform fix or mobile including browsers

Peers can be clients, serving parties and RDV points at the same time, 
for now they simply use a hash to request/say what they can do (example 
: hash(bitcoin) --> I am talking bitcoin, hash(ipfs) --> talking IPFS, 
hash(file) --> I have this file, etc), peers can serve directly the 
request or relay via rdv points to another peer that did advertise the hash

This is not to be misunderstood with the Tor network, even if compatible 
with it

Please let me know your thoughts (note: the project is usable/working 
since quite some time, so not at a prototype state, but phase4-Evented 
pipe is partially implemented and not released, phase5-elliptic crypto 
is not implemented, both I think are mandatory in order for anybody 
beside myself to be able to easily integrate/use it, right now I must 
admit that it's not completely trivial even if recently updated/splitted 
into modules and well documented)

Regards

Aymeric


Le 03/10/2020 à 18:12, Yosem Companys a écrit :
> Thanks, Dmitri. I should note that Stanford Liberationtech has long 
> been a big fan of Equalit.ie and Greenhost, and we recommend your 
> projects often.
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 9:10 AM Dmitri Vitaliev <dmitri at equalit.ie 
> <mailto:dmitri at equalit.ie>> wrote:
>
>     Yes, it will be by all means.
>
>     The project is our next step, following on from
>     https://github.com/equalitie/ouinet - p2p routing and distributed
>     storage for web browsing (the browser is featured here
>     https://censorship.no)
>
>     Dmitri
>
>     On 10/2/20 6:49 PM, bo0od wrote:
>     > This is free/libre software?
>     >
>     > Dmitri Vitaliev:
>     >> Hi Libtech
>     >>
>     >> Since the sun-setting of the libtech-jobs list, posting our latest
>     >> recruitment notice to the general list. If you're interested in
>     >> decentralization and peer-to-peer (and device-to-device)
>     communications;
>     >> motivated by the fight against Internet censorship; have experience
>     >> managing projects and ensuring the success of mobile
>     applications; or if
>     >> you have experience in developing Android & iOS applications in
>     >> particular with the Flutter framework - we have a job for you!
>     >>
>     >> Applications are accepted only when submitted via
>     >> https://equalit.ie/home/jobs
>     >>
>     >> Product owner and project manager
>     >> <https://equalit.ie/job-post/product-owner-and-manager/>
>     >>
>     >> /You will lead eQualitie’s efforts to release and grow adoption
>     for a
>     >> new peer-to-peer file sharing and synchronization mobile app. Your
>     >> responsibilities will include project management, software release
>     >> management, contributions to software architecture and design,
>     >> communications and coordination with project partners (both
>     technical
>     >> and outreach focused) as well as reporting to and liaising with
>     >> management. Success will be millions of users around the world
>     using
>     >> this technology to share information among each other,
>     irrespective of
>     >> network conditions and internet outages./
>     >>
>     >> Mobile app developer for the decentralized web
>     >> <https://equalit.ie/job-post/mobile-app-dev-decentralized-web/>
>     >>
>     >> /eQualitie is seeking an experienced mobile front-end developer who
>     >> possesses a passion for pushing mobile technologies to the
>     limits. The
>     >> person will work within our team of talented engineers to
>     design and
>     >> build an app for easy file sharing and synchronization across the
>     >> internet using peer-to-peer technologies./
>     >>
>     >> all the best from Montreal
>     >>
>     >> Dmitri Vitaliev
>     >>
>     >>
>     >
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