[HacktionLab] Opensource p2p mobile phone network - working niw

[Chris Anderson]

In an urban environment, is serval better than running VoIP on a wifi
mesh network? If not, I'm more interested in getting phones to play an
active role in a larger mesh network mostly made up of wifi routers. I
think cities need this anyway, so why not piggy-back on the network to
give greater coverage and range than a network composed purely of
phones. For example, a group of protestors split into smaller groups
would be able to retain communication and use it to try to regroup.

Then encrypting VoIP and trust networks presumably become easier to do.

On 12 February 2012 20:55,  <sam at bristolwireless.net> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> We did a voice call test over about 30 metres and had a good quality call.
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> The serval developers next plan to get the software running on WRT's so they
> can create a mobile network using commodity wifi hardware.
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> They also have a MMS system working which might be useful for sharing
> photo's/ videos peer to peer.
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> I can see that this could have interesting applications for demonstrations
> etc.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> * How can we use PGP to build networks of trust in this ad-hoc environment
>
> * Can we encrypt these calls/ communications?
>
> Cheers
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> Sam
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