1M5 - Invisible Matrix Services (using leet)
Key Features1M5 (Invisible Matrix Service—using leet) is the first decentralized services platform with intelligent routing between anonymity networks to bypass censorship. This is required as a base level for digital communications to ensure freedom of speech, expression, association, and assembly using electronics.
Censorship resistance is currently accomplished using Tor and I2P. In the future, it will include 1DN (a direct wireless ad-hoc network using radio and LiFi) as well as other future anonymity networks. When a user’s device gets blocked on one network, other networks are used to route around the block until another node can make the request.
Censorship Resistance Routing The first layer in a secure highly network-based application must be a layer supporting anonymity. This is accomplished by 1M5’s Sensor Service by using I2P (Invisible Internet Project) as the basis for routing over the internet, 1DN (Invisible Direct Network) comprising radio & LiFi when the internet is not accessible, and Tor for communicating with non-anonymous nodes in the clearnet like Bitcoin nodes. This routing is managed intelligently using a peer graph across all supported anonymous networks.
I2P: an overlay network over the internet using garlic routing to provide anonymity and end-to-end encryption for privacy using a volunteer network of approximately 65k nodes. Garlic routing encrypts multiple messages together using multiple levels of encryption so that each node that performs routing is only aware of the previous node and the next node but no other nodes especially the originating node. Endpoints are cryptographic identifiers (public keys).
1DN: a wireless ad-hoc network as a sensor to provide private communications outside of the internet using WiFi Direct, the full radio spectrum (Software Defined Radio – SDR), and LiFi (Light Fidelity). As of 2019, LiFi is an emerging technology.
Tor: directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network consisting of more than seven thousand relays to conceal a user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis using onion routing. Primary focus is on private browsing of clearnet sites and providing hidden service sites.
Integrations Chat1M5 would use I2P to route messages between messaging apps switching to 1DN (radio & LiFi) when internet access is blocked.
Browsing1M5 would work to ensure end-users can browse any publicly available web site globally regardless of block attempts. All .onion and .i2p sites would automatically work without
configuration. Tor entry node blocks (e.g. China) would get routed around using I2P/1DN.
Email1M5 would initially use I2P's email system using public keys as destinations with optional aliases. Future 1M5 work would result in the 1M5 network having a decentralized email system to ensure email would work regardless of internet access, which is required by I2P.
Social1M5 would enhance messaging functionality to include a reputation system.
Office Suite1M5 would provide google-docs like office sharing workspace with censorship-resistant access and decentralized content distribution (e.g. Inkrypt
https://www.inkrypt.io/).
OS1M5 would be integrated directly in the operating system. All communications can take advantage of the decentralized censorship-resistant communications. Would likely require rewriting 1M5 in C++/Rust/etc away from Java.
Links
Website:
https://1m5.ioGithub:
https://github.com/1m5Whitepaper:
https://github.com/1m5/1m5-docsMatrix Channel:
https://matrix.to/#/!bTkCCEojAqgxqdsJHR:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=t2bot.io
