Warning
A significant number of hastily launched, incorrect, dubious, directly harmful and, in most cases, entirely LLM-generated fakes of Reticulum implementations, "documentation", "guides" and user-facing applications are currently being marketed under polished, but ultimately misleading or outright deceptive claims.
For more detailed information, see the relevant sections of the Brandolini's Reference chapter of the manual. Known good community implementations are listed in the Community Implementations section of this readme. For software and projects recognized by the Reticulum community, see the Programs Using Reticulum chapter of the manual.
Machine-generated content derived from the RNS source code or documentation (such as "implementations", "guides" for sale, et cetera), are in several, well-documented cases violating the open source licenses that granted rights of copying and distribution.
Any claimed assertion of copyright or grant of license (Apache, GPL, et cetera) that such projects are making are void grants. Both the violators themselves, and all downstream projects using the infringing derivatives, are directly and personally liable for the legal consequences.
Do not use these "projects", they are a hazard to the entire ecosystem we have been carefully building over the last ten years.
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To understand the foundational philosophy and goals of this system, read the Zen of Reticulum.
Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. It can operate even with very high latency and extremely low bandwidth. Reticulum allows you to build wide-area networks with off-the-shelf tools, and offers end-to-end encryption and connectivity, initiator anonymity, autoconfiguring cryptographically backed multi-hop transport, efficient addressing, unforgeable delivery acknowledgements and more.