And I thought that this was replacing remote communication as well. Which is a VERY BIG DEAL. But after listening to the Podcast you linked I see that it is intended for interprocess communication currently but Fluffy did say it can be extended for wiring protocol replacement.
In terms of "dev notes", a lot of this stuff goes down on IRC in #monero-dev and sometimes even #monero. The bi-weekly dev meetings are the culmination of these discussions that span thousands of lines of text over many days.
Could you post those logs on pastebin?
Will Monero pitch to Anchor into Factom blockchain after they do Ethereum?
Ethereum is for smart contracts Factom is for data and Dash or Monero is for privacy.
Actually I don't know who's better between Dash or Monero and I know there is heated debate about this so not opening that pandoras box because I don't have a horse in the race. Anyway both are experimental technologies in field worthy of pursuit.
Well just looking at XMR's rich list should tell you something.
http://moneroblocks.info/richlistIt could be worse, but there's a hint of smugness to the writing on that page.
As there should be, this project is headed by some of the smartest and capable people I've ever seen, they are so advanced they take for granted that we as a community know the things I ask in this thread. I feel like the kid in class that asked the question because others are lost and afraid to. Not to say I don't get lost, my brain is on life support these days. Lol
This project gets the hardest scrutiny and has never to my knowledge lied, misled or deceived the community, how many other ones can you say that about?
Sorry I never got to answering this - extreme lack of time atm.
Bottom line: 0MQ, and in future ZMTP, are extremely well-known, well-used, and well-reviewed software libraries. Our aim is to replace lots of components (eg. the web server used for JSON RPC API access) with standard, well-known, secure libraries.
Why?
Because epee is *not* known-good, *not* well-reviewed, *not* used anywhere except Monero. It is much higher risk to keep epee around, or to roll our own stuff, than to replace it with stuff that is widely reviewed.
PS. Curve25519 / Ed25519 is an integral part of Monero's cryptography. If it's broken we are in a much bigger toilet bowl than just 0MQ. Thankfully, Curve25519 is likely the most secure curve we have today, as Peter Gutmann begrudgingly affirmed recently:
http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2016-March/028824.htmlEdit: btw, the Bruce Schneier quote you include is him explaining why the NIST's P curve constants were purposely broken by the NSA, which is what has led to such an uptake in Curve25519 use. See SafeCurves for details:
https://safecurves.cr.yp.to
