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Kliento is a workload authentication protocol that brings the concept of Kubernetes- and GCP-style "service accounts" to the whole Internet in a vendor-neutral and decentralised wa…

I'm leading the VeraId project, a decentralised protocol that allows you to securely attribute content to any domain name under your control. It's a bit like TLS, but signatures ca…

Haha, I love your name too! :D

Thanks! No ETA yet as the focus is on running small pilots so we can gather feedback before we gradually promote it more broadly.

Thanks for the kind words! Indeed, iOS is going to be a challenge for the reasons you mentioned. The fact that we won't be able to have a standalone app like Awala on Android[1], w…

Hello! I had to reply to your comment here because your reply was briefly flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41697810

That's the goal indeed! What we have right now is version 1, but there's still a lot of room for improvement.

Thank you so much!

Haha, that's one of my long-term ~plans~ dreams. :) NASA and the rest of the space industry have done a fantastic job with the Bundle Protocol (BP) and other related tech[1], but I…

I have! https://github.com/AwalaApp/specs/issues/44 However, at the sneakernet level, and at least today, I think the only region where it'd be useful would be North Korea, if this…

> These practical problems make the project less feasible: I agree! But... > 1. Making end applications implement your protocol (eg Facebook) makes it way harder to scale, simply b…

Hey folks, I couldn't post a reply to a message from shubhamkrm because someone flagged it. Honestly, I don't see how the comment would've violated the HN guidelines. They disagree…

Hello! Author of Awala here. Not sure about that. We're trying to solve very different problems. Scuttlebut and SSB-powered apps like Manyverse focus on social media and decentrali…

> how would this work in jurastictions that are likely to jail you for transporting information across borders Great question! This is, by far, my biggest worry. Especially in Nort…

Hello! Author of Awala here. > They simplified the explanation a bit too much in some places and lost details in the process. Please let me know if there's anything else that we co…

Hiya! Author of Awala here. We're revamping the website right now so it's great to get this kind of feedback! I'll answer your questions in the meantime. You raise good questions. …

> This is more of an anti-censorship thing. Most useful in areas where somebody turns off the Internet for political reasons. Yup, that's exactly the only use case I'm targeting (I…

When the Internet is available, that specific component in your quote (the Internet gateway), does _generally_ behave like a proxy. The interesting thing is what happens when the I…

Author of Awala here! You have no idea how much my friends tease me with that! :)

Hey folks, I'm leading a project that needs protection from DDoS attacks, but I found that everything that we developers and operators need to know to mitigate such attacks is scat…

Thank you so much for the feedback and the kind words! Based on my limited/high-level understanding of the SMSWB and TxtNet projects, your assessment sounds about right to me. Re: …

This is pretty cool, but I wonder if you came across SMS Without Borders[1] and, if so, how your solution is different/better? On this note, just as an FYI, I'm leading the Awala p…

> But I'm more interested in what happens for Mars missions when the round trip time is going to be measured in minutes. Same here. This is going to come across as a shameless plug…

> > Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking > How interesting. (Surprised this didn't come up in IoT domain.) The term may not be commonly used there, but like everything in tech, peo…