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Secure Scuttlebutt

Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a peer-to peer communication protocol, mesh network, and self-hosted social media ecosystem.[3][4] Each user hosts their own content and the content of the peers they follow, which provides fault tolerance and eventual consistency.[5] Messages are digitally signed and added to an append-only list of messages published by an author.[6] SSB is primarily used for implementing distributed social networks, and utilizes cryptography to assure that content remains unforged as it is propagated through the network.[7][8]

Secure Scuttlebutt
Original author(s)Dominic Tarr[1]
Developer(s)Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium[2]
Initial release11 May 2014; 9 years ago (2014-05-11)
Repositorygithub.com/ssbc/ssb-server
Written inJavaScript
Operating systemmacOS, Linux, Windows
Available inEnglish
TypeDistributed social network, protocol, secure communication
LicenseMIT license
Websitewww.scuttlebutt.nz

In contrast to the major corporate social media platforms, user data and content on Secure Scuttlebutt is not monetized, there are no software design decisions being made in order to maximize user engagement or boost marketing metrics, and there is no paid advertising.[9] According to Forbes, "Scuttlebutt itself isn't supported by venture capital. Instead ... Scuttlebutt is backed by grants that helped jump-start the process ... [and] there are now hundreds of users who personally donate to the cause and an estimated 30,000 people using one of at least six social networks on the protocol".[10]

History edit

SSB was created by Dominic Tarr in 2014 as part of experimental development in alternative databases and distributed systems.[citation needed] Tarr lived on a sailboat with unreliable internet connection, and became interested in creating an offline-friendly secure gossip protocol for social networking.[6][11] The word scuttlebutt is slang for "water-cooler gossip" among sailors. SSB gained popularity on the wave of privacy controversies raising against the traditional social media.[12][13]

Protocol edit

Secure Scuttlebutt operates as a database of immutable append-only feeds, which allows resilient replication over the Internet, local area networks, and sneakernets. Messages are hashed with SHA256 and verified with an Ed25519 signature; this makes it impossible to forge a message without the private key of the author.[14] Users only download messages from peers that they follow (and optionally friends of friends), which prevents harassment and spam. This makes the network invite-only, meaning that new peers who join the network aren't visible until someone follows them.[15][16]

User content in SSB is organized as an append-only sequence of immutable messages, where messages cryptographically sign adjacent messages for the purpose of guaranteeing unforgeabilitity of the sequences as they are replicated to other peers. SSB peers exchange asymmetric keys and establish authenticated connections between each other using an Authenticated Key Exchange protocol, Secret Handshake.[17][12]

Applications and documentation edit

The reference implementation was written using Node.js, as code that runs on a JavaScript engine.[18] There are active implementation efforts in the Go programming language, as well as in Python, and Rust.[19][20][21] Documentation for these implementations can be found at the official SSB development site.

Many independent applications have been implemented on SSB, including a social network, music sharing, chess, a Git subsystem, and an npm registry.[22][23][24][25]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Initial commit". GitHub. 11 May 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium". GitHub. 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  3. ^ Tarr, Dominic; Lavoie, Erick; Meyer, Aljoscha; Tschudin, Christian (September 2019). "Secure Scuttlebutt: An Identity-Centric Protocol for Subjective and Decentralized Applications". Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking. ICN '19. pp. 1–11. doi:10.1145/3357150.3357396. ISBN 9781450369701.
  4. ^ "Dweb: Social Feeds with Secure Scuttlebutt – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Scuttlebutt Protocol Guide". ssbc.github.io. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  6. ^ a b Bogost, Ian (22 May 2017). "The Nomad Who's Exploding the Internet Into Pieces". The Atlantic. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  7. ^ "Introduction · GitBook". www.scuttlebutt.nz. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  8. ^ "In The Mesh - Scuttlebutt, A Decentralized Alternative To Facebook". In the Mesh. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  9. ^ Mannell, Kate; Smith, Eden T. (14 September 2022). "It's hard to imagine better social media alternatives, but Scuttlebutt shows change is possible". The Conversation. from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  10. ^ del Castillo, Michael (11 September 2022). "Jack Dorsey's Former Boss Is Building A Decentralized Twitter". Forbes. from the original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  11. ^ Anadiotis, George. "Manyverse and Scuttlebutt: a human-centric technology stack for social applications". ZDNet. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  12. ^ a b "Secure Scuttlebutt - Scuttlebot". scuttlebot.io. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  13. ^ "Open-source alternative to Facebook called Scuttlebutt gaining prominence". Facebook Collapse. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  14. ^ Tschudin, Christian F. (May 2019). "A Broadcast-Only Communication ModelBased on Replicated Append-Only Logs" (PDF). ACM Computer Communication Review. 49 (2): 37–43. doi:10.1145/3336937.3336943. S2CID 167217579.
  15. ^ "Getting Started with Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) » Miguel Mota | Software Developer". miguelmota.com. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  16. ^ Ryabitsev, Konstantin (5 July 2019). "Patches carved into developer sigchains". Konstantin Ryabitsev. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  17. ^ Tarr, Dominic. "Designing a Secret Handshake: Authenticated Key Exchange as a Capability System" (PDF). GitHub. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  18. ^ The gossip and replication server for Secure Scuttlebutt: a distributed social network, Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium, 16 July 2019, retrieved 16 July 2019
  19. ^ A full-stack implementation of secure-scuttlebutt using the Go programming language., cryptoscope, 15 July 2019, retrieved 16 July 2019
  20. ^ Ferreira, Pedro (14 June 2019), Secure Scuttlebutt protocol suite implementation in Python: pferreir/pyssb, retrieved 16 July 2019
  21. ^ meta information about the Sunrise Choir, Sunrise Choir, 18 June 2019, retrieved 16 July 2019
  22. ^ "Applications · GitBook". www.scuttlebutt.nz. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  23. ^ "André Staltz - An off-grid social network". staltz.com. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  24. ^ noffle (3 July 2019), Installing & using npm with secure scuttlebutt, retrieved 16 July 2019
  25. ^ "Whitepaper In Four Minutes - Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB)". infourminutes.co. Retrieved 16 July 2019.

Further reading edit

  • Mannell, Kate; Smith, Eden T. (July–September 2022). "Alternative Social Media and the Complexities of a More Participatory Culture: A View From Scuttlebutt". Social Media + Society. 8 (3). SAGE Publications Ltd. doi:10.1177/20563051221122448. S2CID 252145979.

External links edit

  • Manyverse – app for Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS & Windows
  • Patchfox – SSB client Firefox extension
  • Planetary Social – app for iOS & MacOS

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This article is about the communication protocol For the slang term see Scuttlebutt Secure Scuttlebutt SSB is a peer to peer communication protocol mesh network and self hosted social media ecosystem 3 4 Each user hosts their own content and the content of the peers they follow which provides fault tolerance and eventual consistency 5 Messages are digitally signed and added to an append only list of messages published by an author 6 SSB is primarily used for implementing distributed social networks and utilizes cryptography to assure that content remains unforged as it is propagated through the network 7 8 Secure ScuttlebuttOriginal author s Dominic Tarr 1 Developer s Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium 2 Initial release11 May 2014 9 years ago 2014 05 11 Repositorygithub wbr com wbr ssbc wbr ssb serverWritten inJavaScriptOperating systemmacOS Linux WindowsAvailable inEnglishTypeDistributed social network protocol secure communicationLicenseMIT licenseWebsitewww wbr scuttlebutt wbr nzIn contrast to the major corporate social media platforms user data and content on Secure Scuttlebutt is not monetized there are no software design decisions being made in order to maximize user engagement or boost marketing metrics and there is no paid advertising 9 According to Forbes Scuttlebutt itself isn t supported by venture capital Instead Scuttlebutt is backed by grants that helped jump start the process and there are now hundreds of users who personally donate to the cause and an estimated 30 000 people using one of at least six social networks on the protocol 10 Contents 1 History 2 Protocol 3 Applications and documentation 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksHistory editSSB was created by Dominic Tarr in 2014 as part of experimental development in alternative databases and distributed systems citation needed Tarr lived on a sailboat with unreliable internet connection and became interested in creating an offline friendly secure gossip protocol for social networking 6 11 The word scuttlebutt is slang for water cooler gossip among sailors SSB gained popularity on the wave of privacy controversies raising against the traditional social media 12 13 Protocol editSecure Scuttlebutt operates as a database of immutable append only feeds which allows resilient replication over the Internet local area networks and sneakernets Messages are hashed with SHA256 and verified with an Ed25519 signature this makes it impossible to forge a message without the private key of the author 14 Users only download messages from peers that they follow and optionally friends of friends which prevents harassment and spam This makes the network invite only meaning that new peers who join the network aren t visible until someone follows them 15 16 User content in SSB is organized as an append only sequence of immutable messages where messages cryptographically sign adjacent messages for the purpose of guaranteeing unforgeabilitity of the sequences as they are replicated to other peers SSB peers exchange asymmetric keys and establish authenticated connections between each other using an Authenticated Key Exchange protocol Secret Handshake 17 12 Applications and documentation editThe reference implementation was written using Node js as code that runs on a JavaScript engine 18 There are active implementation efforts in the Go programming language as well as in Python and Rust 19 20 21 Documentation for these implementations can be found at the official SSB development site Many independent applications have been implemented on SSB including a social network music sharing chess a Git subsystem and an npm registry 22 23 24 25 See also editBluesky Social Briar Comparison of distributed social networks Cjdns es Dat Freenet Git IPFS Mastodon Perkeep RetroShare Urbit ZeroNetReferences edit Initial commit GitHub 11 May 2014 Retrieved 17 January 2019 Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium GitHub 2019 Retrieved 17 January 2019 Tarr Dominic Lavoie Erick Meyer Aljoscha Tschudin Christian September 2019 Secure Scuttlebutt An Identity Centric Protocol for Subjective and Decentralized Applications Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Information Centric Networking ICN 19 pp 1 11 doi 10 1145 3357150 3357396 ISBN 9781450369701 Dweb Social Feeds with Secure Scuttlebutt Mozilla Hacks the Web developer blog Mozilla Hacks the Web developer blog Retrieved 16 July 2019 Scuttlebutt Protocol Guide ssbc github io Retrieved 16 July 2019 a b Bogost Ian 22 May 2017 The Nomad Who s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces The Atlantic Retrieved 16 July 2019 Introduction GitBook www scuttlebutt nz Retrieved 16 July 2019 In The Mesh Scuttlebutt A Decentralized Alternative To Facebook In the Mesh 19 April 2018 Retrieved 16 July 2019 Mannell Kate Smith Eden T 14 September 2022 It s hard to imagine better social media alternatives but Scuttlebutt shows change is possible The Conversation Archived from the original on 28 September 2022 Retrieved 28 September 2022 del Castillo Michael 11 September 2022 Jack Dorsey s Former Boss Is Building A Decentralized Twitter Forbes Archived from the original on 15 October 2022 Retrieved 15 October 2022 Anadiotis George Manyverse and Scuttlebutt a human centric technology stack for social applications ZDNet Retrieved 20 January 2019 a b Secure Scuttlebutt Scuttlebot scuttlebot io Retrieved 16 July 2019 Open source alternative to Facebook called Scuttlebutt gaining prominence Facebook Collapse Retrieved 16 July 2019 Tschudin Christian F May 2019 A Broadcast Only Communication ModelBased on Replicated Append Only Logs PDF ACM Computer Communication Review 49 2 37 43 doi 10 1145 3336937 3336943 S2CID 167217579 Getting Started with Secure Scuttlebutt SSB Miguel Mota Software Developer miguelmota com Retrieved 16 July 2019 Ryabitsev Konstantin 5 July 2019 Patches carved into developer sigchains Konstantin Ryabitsev Retrieved 16 July 2019 Tarr Dominic Designing a Secret Handshake Authenticated Key Exchange as a Capability System PDF GitHub Retrieved 20 January 2019 The gossip and replication server for Secure Scuttlebutt a distributed social network Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium 16 July 2019 retrieved 16 July 2019 A full stack implementation of secure scuttlebutt using the Go programming language cryptoscope 15 July 2019 retrieved 16 July 2019 Ferreira Pedro 14 June 2019 Secure Scuttlebutt protocol suite implementation in Python pferreir pyssb retrieved 16 July 2019 meta information about the Sunrise Choir Sunrise Choir 18 June 2019 retrieved 16 July 2019 Applications GitBook www scuttlebutt nz Retrieved 16 July 2019 Andre Staltz An off grid social network staltz com Retrieved 16 July 2019 noffle 3 July 2019 Installing amp using npm with secure scuttlebutt retrieved 16 July 2019 Whitepaper In Four Minutes Secure Scuttlebutt SSB infourminutes co Retrieved 16 July 2019 Further reading editMannell Kate Smith Eden T July September 2022 Alternative Social Media and the Complexities of a More Participatory Culture A View From Scuttlebutt Social Media Society 8 3 SAGE Publications Ltd doi 10 1177 20563051221122448 S2CID 252145979 External links editManyverse app for Android iOS Linux MacOS amp Windows Patchfox SSB client Firefox extension Planetary Social app for iOS amp MacOS Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Secure Scuttlebutt amp oldid 1172275494, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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