[HacktionLab] Opensource p2p mobile phone network - working niw

[sam at bristolwireless.net]

Hi all

At barncamp a few of us played around with this  
http://www.servalproject.org/features It was alpha software at the  
time and we didn't get it working.

We tried again on Friday and it was (almost disappointingly!) easy to  
get going. Just download the serval .apk from market and away you go.

We did a voice call test over about 30 metres and had a good quality call.

The serval developers next plan to get the software running on WRT's  
so they can create a mobile network using commodity wifi hardware.

They also have a MMS system working which might be useful for sharing  
photo's/ videos peer to peer.

I can see that this could have interesting applications for  
demonstrations etc.

1) Set up a piratebox on your phone  
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=935157  When a wifi  
user connects to your phone they are redirected to a webpage and asked  
to download the serval.apk's.

2) In the future we might also be able to get them to download the  
piratebox .apk so the network becomes self replicating.

We can now make peer to peer voice calls with no infrastructure.

Questions

* How can we use PGP to build networks of trust in this ad-hoc environment

* Can we encrypt these calls/ communications?

Cheers

Sam