Comment by Panda_
5 days ago
> share a single secret to become that specific closed network
No? Pretty sure that isn't true.
You get an address by creating a random private key public key combination (no collisions are ensured by entropy).
You then send an announce packet over all the connections to other nodes you have. This packet tells everyone else how to reach you and that you exist. To send packets to you they send to the connection they got your announce came from, then the node on the other end of that connection sends to where it got the announce from and so on until it reaches the origin node where the destination must be.
The manual at https://reticulum.network/manual/index.html is the best source of information on Reticulum but it isn't very beginner friendly.
Uh idk man. Saying "no that's not true" followed by "I actually have no idea how that works" followed by "read the manual."
Maybe just don't?
You clearly did not understand what I said, because whatever routing stuff you've mentioned is unrelated to my point.
Which, if I wanted to be snarky, I would say could be found in the manual you've pointed to: https://reticulum.network/manual/understanding.html#network-...
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Look, I want reticulum to be cool as much as you do, but this is not the way. Reality unfortunately isn't that.
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And, frankly, the docs are not necessarily _complicated_. They're just not good, because they're meandering prose written by Mark for himself. Which is, again, fine, but not by itself an indicator of "clever".
The guy clearly _is_ clever but not because of his writing being near incomprehensible.