"UUCP can be setup rather easily with few configuration files and few lines in each of them. But you have to <i>add some encryption and authentication overlay</i> for securing you data transmission."<p>Any projects that attempted to do this sort of overlay for UUCP?<p>Incidentally, I like the way the author presents this project. Usage examples, thoughtful use cases, comparisons, protocol description and <i>packet formats</i>.<p>No hype.
Related: <i>An off-grid social network</i> (3 weeks ago) | <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050049" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050049</a><p><i>> Scuttlebutt is [...] a peer-to-peer system ideal for social graphs, identity and messaging.</i>
This seems like a really interesting project. I've been recently playing with trying to get something like nntp to work over point-to-point HAM connections. This would solve a lot of the end goals I've been wanting to get to!
I couldn't find your github mirror.
(404, <a href="https://github.com/stargrave/nncp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/stargrave/nncp</a>)
So that you're aware, this is nearly unreadable in Firefox on Linux: for some reason all the links are turquoise on pale blue rather than dark blue on pale blue.