Re: [GNU/consensus] [SocialSwarm-D] having a "dropbox" in the age of full traffic and server analysis

[carlo von lynX]

> On 25/07/13 10:00, carlo von lynX wrote:
> > a dropbox is technically a multicast context anonymously*
> > subscribed to by one or millions of recipients. the name of the
> > context is the public key necessary to write to it. by looking it
> > up in the DHT you find possible root nodes of the multicast. you
> > can send messages to them encrypted to that public key - they will
> > trickle down to the subscribers. the ones who have the private key
> > can read the messages.

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:00:43AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
> This is interesting, but not what I have in mind, which is a way for
> two users to communicate asynchronously by storing and collecting
> encrypted data at a third party.

think again, yours seems to me a special case of the above....
it's enough for you to have two devices ready to receive
the message for the multicast thingie to pay off.