What the heck happened to this?

[stnbu]

Hello, Friend. I thought I'd take a chance and try abusing this repo's issues feature to see if I can figure out what happened to Whisper and/or this project.

Sorry in advance.

This project is exactly what I had in mind when I found out about Whisper, Swarm (and all that). The fact that this (and this kind of thing) has not taken off like a rocket suggests to me that "something is up". It's such an obvious need, yet anything that uses Whisper seems to be semi-dead. I thought maybe @vincentchu would know, given your involvement in all this threeish years ago.

Assuming it's still "a thing" I'm happy to compensate for my spamming by doing something useful, like trying to get this code to work in the current ecosystem. Or testing or whatever's needed.

In whatever case: have a great day!

[vincentchu]

@stnbu Great to hear from you. Honestly I haven't really followed the state of the state when it comes to Whisper or Swarm. AFAIK it was always experimental and never made it into the main stream of Ethereum consciousness.

I presented this work at Eth SF a few years ago but since then haven't really touched it- it was really more a quick hack to throw together a few ideas I had around anonymous communication, bootstrapped over a crypto protocol. IMO the utility of ethereum provides an "umbrella" for secure communication, the same way that the utility of the secure transactions over the internet provided an umbrella secure communications.

My guess is that folks who really want secure communications tend to use Signal or more consumer products ....

Anyway, just a few random thoughts. I'd be happy for you to take this code over and use it as inspiration for whatever you want to do!

[stnbu]

Thank you very much for your response! It looks like https://docs.ethswarm.org/ is where the action is nowadays. It's hard to tell. For one I didn't realize that "swarm" is not really a "proper noun", so it now makes some sense that the name pops up with different projects. There's no clear lineage (which I consider a plus!)

I'd be happy for you to take this code over and use it as inspiration for whatever you want to do!

Thanks. I'm sure I'll steal from it, minimally ;-) I'll let you know if anything cool happens! Have a good one.