Re: Questions about using gnunet to build an application

[Hendursaga]

Lily <me@chroma.sh> writes:

> Hi! I've been evaluating gnunet for one of my personal projects and I had a 
> few questions:

Presumably this project[1]?

> -   I saw in the docs that gnunet uses proof-of-work in a couple places (NSE 
> and Revocation), would this work well on something like a smartphone? If not, 
> are there alternatives in the works?

There was a PhD position posted recently[2] concerning creating Taler wallets 
that could work on embedded systems, and since GNU Taler is listed on the 
applications page[3], presumably a smartphone could work, unless I'm missing 
something.

> -   Does the messaging application guarantee consistent ordering of messages 
> across different nodes?

I'm not sure.

> -   I saw there was a social subsystem in the works, is there any information 
> about that public?

Perhaps you're thinking of secushare[4]?

> -   How stable is gnunet, is it something that could be relied on to build a 
> stable p2p application on top of today?

Me, personally, I'm going to wait a few more years until I would start 
prototyping ideas, if that gives you any clue. I'm no GNUnet dev, just a 
curious spectator for now.

Cheers,
Hendursaga

[1] https://github.com/0chroma/recipra
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnunet-developers/2022-09/msg00069.html
[3] https://www.gnunet.org/en/applications.html
[4] https://secushare.org/