“Why create a hacker group just for 40 year olds?” - my brain.
It’s the famous Cult of the Dead Cow, BTW.
instantly reminded of “you’re telling me a shrimp fried this rice?”
Are they going to rewrite Back Orifice in Rust? :-D
Their intro video about Veilid…
Sounds great, but as far as I know Diffie–Hellman doesn’t protect from MitM attack if there’s no trusted party to prove the integrity of keys sent. I skimmed through the description but this seems not to touch on that theme. Maybe it’s sharing public keys in person time again.
Holy molly. Maidsafe, now that’s a name I haven’t heard in ages. Lot’s of cool and strong primitives and ideas they are building on.
I would love to like this but it doesn’t provide anything more secure than the apps out there that already have end to end encryption like Signal. It doesn’t stop a govt storing the data to decrypt later. They broke TOR and they can break this too eventually.
It remove the central server, which is often the single point of failure. So even if it doesn’t add more security than signal, it adds resilience. And this is not Tor in the way that its not a proxy, its a framework to build secure peer to peer applications.
