pshirshov27 minutes ago
Is my understanding correct that all involved parties must be online?
idle_zealotan hour ago
Very cool. How does this deal with offline recipients? Do the messages just get dropped, or does Yggdrasil somehow store and deliver them?
neilalexander37 minutes ago
I was surprised to see this on the HN homepage, I didn't create Tyr but I did create Yggmail (https://github.com/neilalexander/yggmail) which it is based on. There is no store-and-forward as such, the sending node will keep the message in its outbox and will keep retrying until the destination is online.
Barbing30 minutes ago
Neat
“End-to-end encrypted email for the mesh networking age”
Perhaps wish we weren’t headed for such an age but glad Yggmail is here for it!
evbogue10 minutes ago
back in the day a few of us used to run ssb (secure-scuttlebot) over yggdrasil (and cjdns before that) and that system would distribute the private messages to all of the peers within 3 hops. offline peers would just sync up when online and then decrypt the messages sent to them.
ssb's been broken for around five years, but now that it's working again it'd be fun try this experiment again.
2026 could be the year mesh networks finally take off!
fattyboban hour ago
My first Linux install was Yggdrasil, just for that, this interests me…
cbdevidalan hour ago
You’re OG. My first was some unknown distro that installed in DOS on my Win95 machine and dual booted that way. Totally confused me. Second was Red Hat 6.0 in 1999. That one, I was a little more successful with.