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jack on X: "and here's an ugly whitepaper describing protocol: https://t.co/AhJ1y0jJdP"

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    and here's an ugly whitepaper describing protocol:

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    Hey

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    , this is really good. I’m impressed you even added stuff like random delays to thwart timing analysis attacks. It’s not clear if you include this, but it turns out you can dramatically increase the range of BLE by lowering effective bandwidth and stretching out the

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    Read your whitepaper. You should look at Meshtastic. Very gnarly issues you left unaddressed are 1. Not having delivery ack sucks 2. Good floodfill algo in crowded areas 3. Hop constraints Using BLE is fun idea though. Has merit.

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    That's cool. We were doing something very close to this at Nokia around ... 2012 iirc. Had implemented for N900. I tried to push it in, obviously unsuccessfully. "Oh but Roope, people can use it for unlawful things..."