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Private, Secure and Uncensorable Messaging over a LoRa Mesh (2022)


Or: How to set up a completely private, independent and encrypted communication system in half an hour, using stuff you can buy for under $100.

This will be provided by installing the RNode Firmware on a couple of small LoRa radio modules that can be purchased cheaply off Amazon or similar online vendors. Since he doesn't want to walk around with the LoRa radio constantly dangling by a USB cable from his phone, he decides to set up a Reticulum gateway in his apartment using a Raspberry Pi he had lying around. Both the Nomad Network program and the Sideband application use a cryptographic message delivery system named LXMF, that in turn uses Reticulum for encryption and privacy guarantees.

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