Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. Reticulum can continue to operate even in adverse conditions with very high latency and extremely low bandwidth.

The vision of Reticulum is to allow anyone to operate their own sovereign communication networks, and to make it cheap and easy to cover vast areas with a myriad of independent, interconnectable and autonomous networks. Reticulum is Unstoppable Networks for The People. Reticulum is not one network. It is a tool for building thousands of networks. Networks without kill-switches, surveillance, censorship and control. Networks that can freely interoperate, associate and disassociate with each other. Reticulum is Networks for Human Beings.

From a users perspective, Reticulum allows the creation of applications that respect and empower the autonomy and sovereignty of communities and individuals. Reticulum provides secure digital communication that cannot be subjected to outside control, manipulation or censorship.

Reticulum enables the construction of both small and potentially planetary-scale networks, without any need for hierarchical or beaureucratic structures to control or manage them, while ensuring individuals and communities full sovereignty over their own network segments. Notable Characteristics

While Reticulum solves the same problem that any network stack does, namely to get data reliably from one point to another over a number of intermediaries, it does so in a way that is very different from other networking technologies.

- Reticulum does not use source addresses. No packets transmitted include information about the address, place, machine or person they originated from.

- There is no central control over the address space in Reticulum. Anyone can allocate as many addresses as they need, when they need them.

- Reticulum ensures end-to-end connectivity. Newly generated addresses become globally reachable in a matter of seconds to a few minutes.

- Addresses are self-sovereign and portable. Once an address has been created, it can be moved physically to another place in the network, and continue to be reachable.

- All communication is secured with strong, modern encryption by default.

- All encryption keys are ephemeral, and communication offers forward secrecy by default.

- It is not possible to establish unencrypted links in Reticulum networks.

- It is not possible to send unencrypted packets to any destinations in the network.

- Destinations receiving unencrypted packets will drop them as invalid.

If you want to quickly get an idea of what Reticulum can do, take a look at the following resources.

- For an off-grid, encrypted and resilient mesh communications platform, see Nomad Network

- The Android, Linux and macOS app Sideband has a graphical interface and focuses on ease of use.

- LXMF is a distributed, delay and disruption tolerant message transfer protocol built on Reticulum

Reticulum can be used over practically any medium that can support at least a half-duplex channel with 500 bits per second throughput, and an MTU of 500 bytes. Data radios, modems, LoRa radios, serial lines, AX.25 TNCs, amateur radio digital modes, WiFi and Ethernet devices, free-space optical links, and similar systems are all examples of the types of physical devices Reticulum can use. The supported interface types include:

- Any ethernet device

- Almost all WiFi-based hardware

- LoRa using RNode

- Packet Radio TNCs (with or without AX.25)

- KISS-compatible hardware and software modems

- Any device with a serial port

- TCP over IP networks

- UDP over IP networks

- External programs via stdio or pipes

- Custom hardware via stdio or pipes

https://reticulum.network/

It this the solution to all problems plaguing the Internet today? Even during apocalyptic or intense dystopian scenarios?

I've been using NomadNet - the web alternative built on Reticulum - for a quite a while now. And it's kino as fuck. You can create personal sites and BBSes now and much more. All you need to use is either the main Micron language or anything that outputs to standard output. I haven't tried LXMF messaging yet since it's a pain to get people to try anything other than a braindead easy to use soydev messaging app.