Re: [GNUnet-developers] Why old-school C?

[Jeff Burdges]

On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 13:50 -0700, Ed Baskerville wrote:
> This is a side note, but to get GNUnet to work on non-jailbroken iOS--which 
> some people probably don't care about but I think is going to be 
> necessary--there needs to be a version that can run in a single process. iOS 
> just won't let you do multiple processes unless you're Apple. This might not 
> be too hard--just put processes on different threads, and use the same 
> IPC--but there are no doubt implications for stability and security. I may 
> end up attempting this after I'm better oriented, and would certainly 
> appreciate any warnings you have on this front.

Just fyi, one should not assume that GNUnet as a whole should run on a
mobile device anyways, due largely to metadata leakage issues. 

We'll make GNS run over Tor with only a few processes.  In practice, the
processes relevant for a mobile application could perhaps be bundled
into an application somehow. 

Anyways, privacy tools like Tor, GPG/PGP, XMPP+OTR, etc. arrive extremely 
late on iOS, if they arrive at all.  Just don't use iOS if you care about
privacy.

Jeff

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