'Endrun' Networks: Help In Danger Zones

kierny writes Drawing on networking protocols designed to support NASA's interplanetary missions, two information security researchers have created a networking system that's designed to transmit information securely and reliably in even the worst conditions. Dubbed Endrun, and debuted at Black Hat Europe, its creators hope the delay-tolerant and disruption-tolerant system — which runs on Raspberry Pi — could be deployed everywhere from Ebola hot zones in Liberia, to war zones in Syria, to demonstrations in Ferguson.

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Everything old is new again

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Eventually, we just keep rediscovering old concepts. Store-and-forward is basically Zone Mail Hour, and the first time I read about the Deep Space network concepts, all I could think of was interplanetary FidoNet, or WWIVnet.