From: stig@netcom.com (Stig)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 93 21:29:07 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: more than spread spectrum
In-Reply-To: <9309150353.AA06198@ellisun.sw.stratus.com>
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In <9309150353.AA06198@ellisun.sw.stratus.com>, Carl Ellison wrote...
> There are alternatives to spread spectrum, if we're threatened with
> loss of freedom to communicate.
> 
> We could lay our own wires/fibers.
> 

Well, we'd like crypto for the masses and I don't think that the masses are
yet ready to put out the bucks for spread spectrum boards and infrared laser
communications gear...  It'd be really nice to have such a decentralized
network, though.

> We could set up a mesh network of infrared lasers through the air.  Last
> time I looked, there were no laws against shining lights out your window as
> long as they didn't bother anyone.  An infrared laser could hardly bother
> anyone.
> 
...
> very low range radio, ....  Each card would connect to three or more
> neighbors and become part of the global mesh.  Adaptive routing with no
> global map would suffice for the card and would keep the whole system
> peer-to-peer with no need for central control and no chance for central
> tapping.
> 

This would be the perfect network in which to deploy DC nets....  (dining
cryptographers).



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