P2P Messaging & Scuttlebutt with Dominic Tarr

Zero Knowledge

Jun 12, 2019•48 min

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Episode description

In this week’s episode, we meet with Dominic Tarr, a protocol designer and security auditor at Least Authority who works on Scuttlebutt - a decentralized secure gossip platform. We discuss P2P messaging and the challenges of sending messages within a p2p network in a truly decentralised manner.

Here are some links we mention:

https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-server

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf

For more on Scuttlebutt, please have a look at these resources.

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

For more on Dominic, check out this article in the Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/meet-the-counterantidisintermediationists/527553/

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