Cult of the Dead Cow unveils Veilid peer-to-peer project
www.theregister.com
‘It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing’

Recently cult of the dead cow came out with veilid, a secure decentralised way of sending encrypted information and i think this could be a huge asset to lemmy. Cult of the dead cow even mentions mastadon by name as they say this is the type of application it was designed for. If veilidchat takes off then i really hope the devs will consider it.

    • Darthjaffacake@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Is it not possible to use both at the same time? They’re both network protocols but surely they operate on different levels, ActivityPub is the social networking protocol and Veilid would be the method of distribution within that protocol. I’m new to all this stuff so i could definitely be wrong

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Oh, I see what you mean. Uuuh, doable I suppose, but then again, why bother when it’s going to be encrypted in transit anyways (HTTPS and all) and both the sender and the recipient naturally have to be able to read it do to anything with it.

        This protocol sounds more like something for torrenting or so, so that you could seed a file without knowing what it contains and hence have plausible deniability.