Components

To get started, we need to decide what tools we will use. The first experiments will be focused on particular parts of the system to prove that current plans are viable. simulate node discovery - now many, and of what type of nodes are required for normal communication to be feasible mock up consensus method creation: format, interface, sharing. it might be fun to see if LLM agents can talk to each other using various consensus methods and get good results....

Functional goals: Given a list of IP addresses, maintain communicative cluster capable of sending and receiving messages between members Maximize ability to maintain cluster with various commonplace network conditions: dynamic IP address periodic temporary connection loss long term connection loss hardware failure Ensure attack surface is minimized to third parties nodes must allow connection from the internet due to changing IP addresses randomly calculated rendezvous windows

Cryptographic keys are used at every interface - between nodes to establish identities, to decrypt received data, to encrypt data before transmission, to encrypt data before storage, to decrypt data read from storage, etc. It’s critical that all other components are properly structured around safe key management, so this will be one of the first components developed. Key generation Every user generates a root key that serves as the ultimate recovery key, which is used to bootstrap their cluster....

Simple messaging layer, which can be built upon for more complex communication schemes. sharing of simple messages, with references to other messages creation of conversation groups group message exchange between clusters

Data layer - persistent storage duplicated between one’s own nodes and some nodes of trusted friends. stores messages always encrypted at rest combinatoric streaming engine requires compromise of multiple nodes to access archived data. combine stream of two remote nodes to construct messages in memory locally redundant - any two nodes can be used to recover all data relay, sender, receiver roles trusted friends can serve relay role only one sender at a time fully encrypted on nodes of trusted people you know