## Secure-scuttlebutt vs scuttlebutt vs scuttlebot vs sbot?

#### An explanation of terms, repos and project history

- [`scuttlebutt`](https://github.com/dominictarr/scuttlebutt): a [`gossip protocol`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol) that synchronises messages via a vector clock of per-node timestamps or sequences. Dominic got this name from an amazon paper ["Efficient Reconciliation and Flow Control for Anti-Entropy Protocols"](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/rvr/papers/flowgossip.pdf). This is the original scuttlebutt module which should now be known as "insecure scuttlebutt". This repo is generally no longer used by the ssb community.

- [`secure-scuttlebutt`](https://github.com/ssbc/secure-scuttlebutt): this is the **database** part of **ssb**. Previously this term referred to the protocol/database as a whole.

- [`scuttlebot`](https://github.com/ssbc/scuttlebot): this repo adds **networking behaviour** to the database (secure-scuttlebutt).

- [`sbot`](https://github.com/ssbc/scuttlebot): short for **scuttlebot**, also the cli command name.

There have been suggestions to rename some repos to better reflect their use and purpose:

secure-scuttlebutt --> [`ssb-db `](https://github.com/ssbc/secure-scuttlebutt/issues/159)
scuttlebot --> [`ssb-server`](https://github.com/ssbc/scuttlebot/issues/378)