Subject: [EN] NNCP 8.0.0 release announcement

From: Sergey Matveev <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 14:41:05 +0300

I am pleased to announce NNCP 8.0.0 release availability!

NNCP (Node to Node copy) is a collection of utilities simplifying
secure store-and-forward files and mail exchanging.

This utilities are intended to help build up small size (dozens of
nodes) ad-hoc friend-to-friend (F2F) statically routed darknet
delay-tolerant networks for fire-and-forget secure reliable files, file
requests, Internet mail and commands transmission. All packets are
integrity checked, end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), explicitly authenticated
by known participants public keys. Onion encryption is applied to
relayed packets. Each node acts both as a client and server, can use
push and poll behaviour model. Also there is multicasting areas support.

Out-of-box offline sneakernet/floppynet, dead drops, sequential and
append-only CD-ROM/tape storages, air-gapped computers support. But
online TCP daemon with full-duplex resumable data transmission exists.

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The main improvements for that release are:

* *Incompatible* encrypted packet format change: payload and pad
  sizes are sent in-bound in the encrypted stream.  That gives
  ability to streamingly create encrypted packets, without knowing
  sizes in advance, without creating temporary file or buffer data in
  memory.
* Proper encrypted packet padding verification is done now.  This is
  not critical issue, but previously neither padding value, nor its
  size were authenticated, giving ability to iteratively strip
  trailing bytes and determine payload’s size by observing the
  reaction of the encrypted packet processing.
* "nncp-exec" loses its "-use-tmp" option, because of
  streaming-compatible encrypted packets format.
* "nncp-file" and "nncp-exec" commands have "-maxsize" option,
  limiting maximal resulting encrypted packet’s maximal size
  (returning error if it is exceeded).  Could be useful, because no
  payload size could be known in advance.

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NNCP's home page is: http://www.nncpgo.org/

Source code and its signature for that version can be found here:

    http://www.nncpgo.org/download/nncp-8.0.0.tar.xz (1203 KiB)
    http://www.nncpgo.org/download/nncp-8.0.0.tar.xz.sig

SHA256 hash: 376BE15D 956AE171 2D04B607 15D53B17 62CDFA72 86AA9957 2D8E4641 4DA987F0
GPG key ID: 0x2B25868E75A1A953 NNCP releases <[email-masked]>
Fingerprint: 92C2 F0AE FE73 208E 46BF  F3DE 2B25 868E 75A1 A953

There are mirrors where you can also get the source code tarballs:
http://www.nncpgo.org/Mirrors.html

Please send questions regarding the use of NNCP, bug reports and patches
to mailing list: http://lists.cypherpunks.ru/nncp_002ddevel.html

-- 
Sergey Matveev (http://www.stargrave.org/)
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