Inspiration
pollen was inspired by the many governments who continue to shut off the internet in times of dissent
What it does
- messages propagate (securely) in the same way that bees pollinate flowers, over a network of nodes (run on raspberry pis in testing, but usable on any platform)
Challenges I ran into
- sending messages over TCP sockets
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
- it is fully functional and theoretically legitimately usable in the real world, though I wouldn't endorse its security
What I learned
- though I already knew this, I have a better appreciation of the unbelievable amount of precautions that must go into major encrypted messaging apps
What's next for pollen.im
- compiled GUI releases for every major platform (see GitHub for future updates)
Built With
- pgp
- python
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