https://berty.tech/challenges/ Recent content in Challenges on Berty Technologies Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US contact@berty.tech (Berty Technologies) contact@berty.tech (Berty Technologies) https://berty.tech/challenges/1-goals/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 contact@berty.tech (Berty Technologies) https://berty.tech/challenges/1-goals/ Provide a secure messenger that would preserve privacy and anonymity of its users Create a chat application that works over P2P network on desktop and mobile platforms Provide an easy to use Protocol, so that developers can create secure applications over P2P networks on desktop and mobile Improve the strengths and entropy of P2P networks by adding a lot of new peers Be able to do off-grid communication (offline-first) Be resilient against censorship Be resilient against mass surveillance by minimizing metadata leakage Being an alternative to the existing models powered by GAFAM or controlled/controllable by the government In working towards those goals, Berty is facing certain challenges. https://berty.tech/challenges/3-organizational-challenges/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 contact@berty.tech (Berty Technologies) https://berty.tech/challenges/3-organizational-challenges/ Funding as an NGO Constraints: No selling user data (we don’t want to and we can’t). Free & Open Source application - no revenue. How Berty tackles it: We’re getting donations from sponsors. We plan to crowdfund some tasks, like security audits. Being incorruptible / unkillable Constraints: Government can force you to add a backdoor in your software. Government can force you to give them metadata and messages. https://berty.tech/challenges/2-technical-challenges/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 contact@berty.tech (Berty Technologies) https://berty.tech/challenges/2-technical-challenges/ Implementing P2P networking on mobile devices Constraints on mobile platforms: Cellular connections are more problematic: NAT traversal is more difficult to achieve Connections are less reliable Connections are generally slower with a higher ping Data plans have limited daily/monthly quotas Less CPU power Smaller maximum amount of concurrent networking connections Limited battery life Smaller amount of CPU time allocated to the app (app in the background) Some projects that implement P2P on mobile Textile.