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'The Nomad Who's Exploding the Internet Into Pieces'.

^ 'Dweb: Social Feeds with Secure Scuttlebutt – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog'.

Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking. 'Secure Scuttlebutt: An Identity-Centric Protocol for Subjective and Decentralized Applications'.

^ Tarr, Dominic Lavoie, Erick Meyer, Aljoscha Tschudin, Christian (September 2019).

Comparison of distributed social networks.Many independent applications have been implemented on SSB, including a social network, music sharing, chess, a Git subsystem, and an npm registry. Documentation for these implementations can be found at the official SSB development site. There are active implementation efforts in the Go programming language, as well as in Python, and Rust.

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The reference implementation was written using Node.js, as code that runs on a JavaScript engine. SSB peers exchange asymmetric keys and establish authenticated connections between each other using an Authenticated Key Exchange protocol, Secret Handshake. User content in SSB is organized as an append-only sequence of immutable messages, where messages cryptographically sign adjacent messages for the purpose of guaranteeing unforgeabilitity of the sequences as they are replicated to other peers. This makes the network invite-only, meaning that new peers who join the network aren't visible until someone follows them.

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Users only download messages from peers that they follow (and optionally friends of friends), which prevents harassment and spam. Messages are hashed with SHA256 and verified with an Ed25519 signature this makes it impossible to forge a message without the private key of the author. Secure Scuttlebutt operates as a database of immutable append-only feeds, which allows resilient replication over the Internet, local area networks, and sneakernets. SSB gained popularity on the wave of privacy controversies raising against the traditional social media. The word scuttlebutt is slang for 'water-cooler gossip' among sailors. Tarr lived on a sailboat with unreliable internet connection, and became interested in creating an offline-friendly secure gossip protocol for social networking. SSB was created by Dominic Tarr in 2014 as part of experimental development in alternative databases and distributed systems.

Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients.

there are now hundreds of users who personally donate to the cause and an estimated 30,000 people using one of at least six social networks on the protocol'. Scuttlebutt is backed by grants that helped jump-start the process. According to Forbes, 'Scuttlebutt itself isn't supported by venture capital.

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In contrast to the major corporate social media platforms, user data and content on Secure Scuttlebutt is not monetized, there are no software design decisions being made in order to maximize user engagement or boost marketing metrics, and there is no paid advertising. SSB is primarily used for implementing distributed social networks, and utilizes cryptography to assure that content remains unforged as it is propagated through the network. Messages are digitally signed and added to an append-only list of messages published by an author. Each user hosts their own content and the content of the peers they follow, which provides fault tolerance and eventual consistency. Secure Scuttlebutt ( SSB) is a peer-to peer communication protocol, mesh network, and self-hosted social media ecosystem. For the slang term, see Scuttlebutt.ĭistributed social network, protocol, secure communication This article is about the communication protocol.

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