INFORMATION WARFARE · RETICULUM
The Informed on Reticulum
Reticulum is a network that doesn't care what carries the data. The same network runs over LoRa radio, packet radio, WiFi, the internet or I2P, all mixed together. An address is the hash of a public key, so nobody hands addresses out, and every link is encrypted. It works down to a few hundred bits a second, which is why it keeps going when the internet is cut.
HOW TO CONNECT
Three steps
- 1Get Reticulum or an app that carries it
Sideband runs on Android and desktop, MeshChat on desktop, and Nomad Network in a terminal. Or install the stack itself with
reticulum.network ↗pip install rns. - 2Add our node as an interface
Put this in ~/.reticulum/config under [interfaces], or add the same host and port as a TCP interface in your app.
[[The Informed]] type = TCPClientInterface enabled = yes target_host = rns.theinformed.org target_port = 4242 - 3Use our message relay
In Sideband or MeshChat, set this as your propagation node. Messages sent to you while you are offline wait there until you come back.
OUR PAGES
Read The Informed over Reticulum
Reticulum pages are not web pages, so Firefox and Chrome cannot open them. MeshChat has a page browser built in: connect it to our node as above, open its Nomad Network browser, and enter the address below. In Nomad Network, open the Network tab and enter the same address.
OVER I2P INSTEAD
Reach the node without the open internet
Run an I2P router with its SAM bridge turned on, then add an I2P interface pointed at our node.
[[The Informed over I2P]]
type = I2PInterface
enabled = yes
peers = nancnplykbbqkmr525n2paosrr5ffsoedlmcgkblujxiymxt2ska.b32.i2pWhat this node is
A teaching node run by Sean Egan and Derek Conklin, funded by h Bar CO. It relays traffic for anyone on the network and holds up to 200 MB of messages for people who are offline. Reticulum encrypts messages end to end, so the relay only ever stores messages it cannot read. We keep it running around the clock.
No internet at all
A cheap LoRa board flashed as an RNode joins the same network by radio, with no internet anywhere on the path. We are building radio links to this node next.