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Willow Sideloading Protocol


A protocol for peer-to-peer data stores. The best parts? Fine-grained permissions, a keen approach to privacy, destructive edits, and a dainty bandwidth and memory footprint.

Instead of statefully coordinating which data to exchange, the Sideloading Protocol uses drops, arbitrary sets of Entries and Payloads compiled into a single bytestring. USB keys SD cards CDs Email attachments Instant messages Torrents Or whatever means users have at hand. Once created, drop can be transported by whatever means a single bytestring can be transferred, to be decrypted and the recovered contents ingested by its intended recipient.

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