![]() ![]() There is no worldwide store of identities. The public key is used as the identifier. IdentitiesĪn identity is simply a ed25519 key pair. Scuttlebot can change Pubs, or join more than one, and sync directly over Wifi.īuilding upon Secure Scuttlebutt requires understanding a few concepts that it uses to ensure the unforgeability of message feeds. However, because Scuttlebot has no DHT or NAT-traversal utilities, users must "join" a Pub to distribute their messages on the WAN. Pubs have no special privileges, and are not trusted by users. They follow users and rehost the messages to other peers, ensuring good uptime and no firewall blockage. "Pubs" are bot-users that have public IPs. Instead, users name themselves, and share petnames for each other.ĭiscovery occurs by examining the social graph, or by out-of-band sharing.Īpplications can analyze the follow-graph, and look for "flag" messages, to determine who is trust-worthy in the network. There is no global registry of usernames. Users are identified by confirmations and signals in the social graph. The messages and files are stored locally, indefinitely, for applications to read. Scuttlebot searches the P2P mesh for new messages and files from followed users and from FoaFs (friend of a friend's). Scuttlebot forms a global cryptographic social network with its peers.Įach user is identified by a public key, and publishes a log of signed messages, which other users follow socially. Secure Scuttlebutt also makes it easy to encrypt messages. This property makes Secure Scuttlebutt useful for peer-to-peer applications. "Unforgeable" means that only the owner of a feed can update that feed, as enforced by digital signing (see Security properties). After retiring as a Chief Petty Officer Second Class, he now works as a Library Systems Specialist at Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg, Man.Secure Scuttlebutt is a database protocol for unforgeable append-only message feeds. The author of ‘ Jackspeak of the Royal Canadian Navy’ and ‘ Whiskey 601’, Mark Nelson developed a love of the Navy’s language and lifestyle over his 26-year career in the service. ![]() You will find over 4,000 examples of Jackspeak in my book Jackspeak of the Royal Canadian Navy (2 nd ed.). A scupper is described to neophytes and young sailors as a ‘hole’ in the deck and a scuttle as a hole in the ship’s side. Often interchanged or confused with the term scuttle, scupper in naval context refers to a deck drain meant to carry water overboard. In more modern times, it came to mean ‘To defeat, ruin, destroy, or put an end to’. The Oxford English Dictionary tells us the term ‘scupper’ originated in the late nineteenth century as military slang, meaning ‘to surprise and exterminate’. Scupper, a term widely used outside the military, can refer to something being thwarted or ruined, i.e., “The weather scuppered Bloggins’ trip to the beach”. Rumour Control refers to a fictitious entity in every ship that seems to be involved in scuppering rumours. The unflattering term white rat might refer to a junior sailor who a senior sailor uses to spread rumours. In a more general military context, rumours can be called buzz. More explicitly, ‘dit’ can be modified to ‘no sh*t dit’, a rumor confirmed as being true, or ‘bad dit’, a rumour confirmed as false. Even today, a galley packet may refer to a juicy rumour, whether created in the galley or not, i.e., “I heard the juiciest galley packet just now on the quarterdeck”.ĭit can refer to rumours, i.e., “Bloggins has all the best dit”. The term galley packet originated from this situation. In the past, the galley was where sailors gathered and talked, as smoking was allowed there. In more modern times, rumours might emanate from anywhere the ship’s company may gather, such as a breezeway, quarterdeck, lounge, or smoking patio. While the term scuttlebutt still finds plenty of uses in a naval context, there is no longer a physical place for it aboard HMC ships. An uncommon term related to a scuttle is the rigol, a raised rim above the outside of a scuttle resembling an eyebrow. On a warship, a scuttle comes with a battle cover – a metal cover (shade) which may be closed when the order ‘darken ship’ is given. As a noun, scuttle refers to a round opening or ‘window’ in the side of a ship, something customarily referred to as a porthole in non-naval circles. In naval vernacular, scuttle refers to a breach, as in the verb scuttle, where a ship’s hull is breached to sink the vessel deliberately. Much like a modern water cooler, rumours and gossip were often shared, and these tidbits of information were referred to as scuttlebutt. As far back as the 17 th century, a scuttled butt was the term for a barrel that had been breached to provide a source of fresh water for the crew. Scuttlebutt is a commonly used term with a naval origin.
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