Mesh Design Notes

Mesh Design Notes are notes written to capture the design intent prior to developing architecture and code. They are intended to be illustrative rather than normative.

Mesh-01 Requirements

Discusses the set of problems the Mesh was originally designed to address

Mesh-02 Deployment

Discusses the deployment strategy. This is discussed in more detail in this video presentation.

Mesh-03 Usability

The Mesh approach to usability.

Mesh-04 Insecurity

Considers the root causes of Internet insecurity (circa 2018)

Mesh-05 Disaster Recovery

Discusses the approach to disaster recovery in the Mesh

Mesh-06 Out of Scope

Lists the set of security issues that are not in scope for the Mesh architecture.

Mesh-07 Passwords

Examines some of the many reasons passwords are hopeless security controls.

Mesh-08 Confidential Document Control

Proposes Confidential Document Control as a subset of the CRM problem that addresses the most critical concerns without the technical and political issues raised by strong CRM.

Mesh-09 Secure Internet Names

Describes the design of secure internet names based on UDF fingerprints.

Mesh-10 Unifying Messaging

Proposes a unified messaging system using the Mesh as the basis.

Mesh-11 How the Mesh Works (2.0)

Overview of Mesh 2.0 from the user's point of view.

Mesh-12 Meta-Cryptography I: How Diffie-Hellman Works

A concise introduction to the mathematics behind Diffie-Hellman

Mesh-13 Meta-Cryptography II: Advanced Diffie-Hellman

Describes how Diffie-Hellman supports meta-cryptography opearations including key splitting and key combination.

Mesh-14 MetaCryptography III: Elliptic Curves

Describes the implementation of the techniques described in part II in elliptic curve systems.

Mesh-15 Quantum Contingency

A sketch setting out contingency planning for the emergence of practical quantum cryptanalysis.