Honest assessment of QuicProChat vs Reticulum/Meshtastic/Briar:
- MLS overhead (500-800 byte KeyPackages) impractical for SF12 LoRa
- KeyPackage distribution over mesh unsolved
- No lightweight mode for constrained links
MLS-Lite design proposes 41-byte overhead symmetric mode:
- ChaCha20-Poly1305 with HKDF key derivation
- Optional Ed25519 signatures
- Upgrade path to full MLS when faster transport available
- QR code / out-of-band key exchange
Implement transport abstraction (TCP/iroh), announce and routing table,
multi-hop mesh router, truncated-address link layer, and LoRa mock
medium with fragmentation plus EU868-style duty-cycle accounting.
Add mesh_lora_relay_demo and scripts/mesh-demo.sh. Relax CBOR vs JSON
size assertion to match fixed-size cryptographic overhead. Extend
.gitignore for nested targets and node_modules.
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