git ssb

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    "text": "@mixmix oh god it's on facebook. I recognize Eleanor Saitta, I've read her blog [dymaixon.org](https://dymaxion.org/) and listened to her on [mindful cyborgs podcast](http://mindfulcyborgs.com/shows/2015/3/2/episode-50-mindful-cyborgs-episode-50-data-driven-introspection-and-surveillance-culture-with-eleanor-saitta)\n\nProbably easiest if you linked me to the group so I could respond directly?\n\nBut guessing at what she means:\n\nWell, it's not really like that. Briar is probably the closest project to ssb/patchwork, but our goals are different. The main thing is that ssb targets from the center of the privacy spectrum (public broadcast) down to fairly private (but on the record). Briar targets the private/anonymous end of the spectrum. Briar is also built around a social network or buddies list, but it only gets messages from your friends from them directly, which means you both needs to be online at the same time (if my understanding is correct)\n\nssb is based on gossip replication instead of direct connections, you know each message is authentic because it has a signature, and if you want to make a message private, you encrypt it, but it's still on the record. So, it's not forward secure. The advantage of signatures is now your friends can replicate messages for you, so you don't need to be online at the same time, just have some mutual friends that are.\n\none of ssb's goals is make it easy to create decentralized applications, and an on-the-record database with a low SLA seems a better foundation than denyable/off-the-record messaging, which I think would map mainly to messaging applications.\n\nWhen there is a point to point connection, there is a key exchange, via [secret-handshake](https://dominictarr.github.io/secret-handshake-paper/shs.pdf) but that is just to authenticate the peer and defeat a passive eavesdropper, so I don't think that is what she is asking about.\n\n> note: we havn't really discussed \"off-the-record\" much here in patchworkland, but it's often argued that that is the dominant mode of natural human communication. Most casual communications (face to face) do not create a trail of evidence, and either party can claim that they didn't say what the other said they did. Sometimes people like to imbibe certain substances which increases denyability! even in a business context! if you went drinking with clients while negioating a deal that is like denyable encryption, but (hopefully) you wait until the next day when you are sober to sign the contract (on the record).\n>\n>ssb/patchwork doesn't do denyable, but you could use it to bootstrap another protocol which was denyable.",
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