Nearby identities issue

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Nearby identities issue

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Getting an unknown identity like above sid:****. Is this related to the first issue of issues in readme?

If yes, please let me know how could I solve this internally @lakeman

Answer 1 · 2020-04-09T00:28:27.000Z

We use public / private encryption keys as network addresses. Then perform something like a dns query to ask for names. If there's no response, we just display the public key. If you start the app and connect to a network, without setting up an identity, we'll create a temporary key pair so you can participate in the network. Initially we thought that we'd allow the user to browse public messages, while remaining anonymous, but that hasn't been implemented.

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Answer 2 · 2020-04-09T13:08:30.000Z

So, Is there a way to disable until implementing? Currently, I did a workaround to look for the coming peers with null lookup but that not efficient

Answer 3 · 2020-04-09T13:30:16.000Z

You can either (or both) hide peers until they respond to a Lookup; https://github.com/servalproject/serval_chat/blob/development/app/src/main/java/org/servalproject/mid/KnownPeers.java#L58 or delay the handling of networks; https://github.com/servalproject/serval_chat/blob/development/app/src/main/java/org/servalproject/mid/networking/Networks.java#L50

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Answer 4 · 2020-04-10T03:27:43.000Z

We also have a grant application in the signing stage that would allow us to implement a kind of business card that would be able to be shared on the network to allow delay-tolerant resolution of SIDs into names. Paul. On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 23:00, Jeremy Lakeman <notifications@github.com> wrote:

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You can either (or both) hide peers until they respond to a Lookup; https://github.com/servalproject/serval_chat/blob/development/app/src/main/java/org/servalproject/mid/KnownPeers.java#L58 or delay the handling of networks; https://github.com/servalproject/serval_chat/blob/development/app/src/main/java/org/servalproject/mid/networking/Networks.java#L50 On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 22:38, Assem ***@***.***> wrote: > So, Is there a way to disable until implementing? > > — > You are receiving this because you were mentioned. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > < #15 (comment) >, > or unsubscribe > < https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAEQHXRIVFG5WF4UBPHQPJ3RLXCFZANCNFSM4MEFVFIA > > . > — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#15 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAFCOT4PSMPLH7FVTMDKPFTRLXEXRANCNFSM4MEFVFIA> .

Answer 5 · 2020-04-10T16:26:22.000Z

https://github.com/servalproject/serval_chat/blob/development/app/src/main/java/org/servalproject/mid/KnownPeers.java#L169

What about this? This will always read 3 though it must be 2. putting Lookup with null doesn't help in this function as routeResults may not get called again after dnaResults called and vice versa

Answer 6 · 2020-04-10T22:02:44.000Z

We also have a grant application in the signing stage that would allow us to implement a kind of business card that would be able to be shared on the network to allow delay-tolerant resolution of SIDs into names. Paul. On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 23:00, Jeremy Lakeman notifications@github.com wrote:
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You can either (or both) hide peers until they respond to a Lookup; https://github.com/servalproject/serval_chat/blob/development/app/src/main/java/org/servalproject/mid/KnownPeers.java#L58 or delay the handling of networks; https://github.com/servalproject/serval_chat/blob/development/app/src/main/java/org/servalproject/mid/networking/Networks.java#L50 On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 22:38, Assem @.***> wrote: > So, Is there a way to disable until implementing? > > — > You are receiving this because you were mentioned. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > < #15 (comment) >, > or unsubscribe > < https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAEQHXRIVFG5WF4UBPHQPJ3RLXCFZANCNFSM4MEFVFIA > > . > — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#15 (comment)>, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAFCOT4PSMPLH7FVTMDKPFTRLXEXRANCNFSM4MEFVFIA .

That would be great but bear in mind that the displayed SID above in the picture comes from an unknown place, Maybe serval-dna created it internally for a reason (I didn't reach to it yet in c++ side) but I don't know if it related to the first issue of the issues in the README. Therefore, You also need to check if this SID related to a real/existed identity or not.

I would like to say as well I'm building a wrapper to link serval-dna with react-native and I'm almost done with it. Actually, I did this for many reasons but most importantly are because react-native doesn't have a really good library to provide offline actions between devices (send files/messages) and second the powerful of serval-dna you guys really did a great job.

Answer 7 · 2020-04-11T01:09:24.000Z

Every problem can be solved with another layer of abstraction. There are various places in the daemon code that call get_my_subscriber, to write the first public key from the keyring into a network packet. This will auto create an identity if none exists. https://github.com/servalproject/serval-dna/blob/a93ded21d0c2cc91a93985aa8f894d50d7d209d2/overlay_address.c#L79 You would have to prevent network access, by setting configuration to deny each interface ("interfaces.0.exclude", "on"); https://github.com/servalproject/serval_chat/blob/f71e8344827795f6e42975a049076fce8faece81/app/src/main/java/org/servalproject/mid/Serval.java#L116 And never call "up" on an AbstractExternalInterface. https://github.com/servalproject/serval_chat/blob/08ed786b657fe9dbdc1f6193f6b8b39d2aacc4cd/app/src/main/java/org/servalproject/mid/networking/bluetooth/BlueToothControl.java#L105

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On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 07:32, Assem ***@***.***> wrote: We also have a grant application in the signing stage that would allow us to implement a kind of business card that would be able to be shared on the network to allow delay-tolerant resolution of SIDs into names. Paul. On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 23:00, Jeremy Lakeman ***@***.*** wrote: … <#m_-8240277719995025847_> You can either (or both) hide peers until they respond to a Lookup; https://github.com/servalproject/serval_chat/blob/development/app/src/main/java/org/servalproject/mid/KnownPeers.java#L58 or delay the handling of networks; https://github.com/servalproject/serval_chat/blob/development/app/src/main/java/org/servalproject/mid/networking/Networks.java#L50 On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 22:38, Assem *@*.***> wrote: > So, Is there a way to disable until implementing? > > — > You are receiving this because you were mentioned. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > < #15 (comment) <#15 (comment)> >, > or unsubscribe > < https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAEQHXRIVFG5WF4UBPHQPJ3RLXCFZANCNFSM4MEFVFIA > > . > — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#15 (comment) <#15 (comment)>>, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAFCOT4PSMPLH7FVTMDKPFTRLXEXRANCNFSM4MEFVFIA . That would be great but bear in mind that the displayed SID above in the picture comes from an unknown place, Maybe serval-dna created it internally for a reason (I didn't reach to it yet in c++ side) but I don't know if it related to the first issue of the issues in the README. Therefore, You also need to check if this SID related to a real/existed identity or not. I would like to say as well I'm building a wrapper to link serval-dna with react-native and I'm almost done with it. Actually, I did this for many reasons but most importantly are because react-native doesn't have a really good library to provide offline actions between devices (send files/messages) and second the powerful of serval-dna you guys really did a great job. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#15 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAEQHXQIYCFBSMVYW7QD3UTRL6JRDANCNFSM4MEFVFIA> .