excerpt: 'a gossip protocol that synchronises messages via a vector clock of per-node timestamps or sequences. Dominic got this name from an amazon paper "Efficient Reconciliation and Flow Control for Anti-Entropy Protocols". This is the original scuttlebutt module which should now be known as "insecure scuttlebutt".'
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[Scuttlebot.io](https://scuttlebot.io/)
[Design Challenge: Avoid Centralization and Singletons](https://scuttlebot.io/more/articles/design-challenge-avoid-centralization-and-singletons.html)
> SecureScuttlebutt goes out of it's way to avoid both centralization and singletons.
[Show Zero Knowledge, Ep Episode 81: P2P Messaging & Scuttlebutt with Dominic Tarr](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/zero-knowledge/id1326503043?i=1000441290356) - Jun 12, 2019
> In this week’s episode, we meet with Dominic Tarr, a protocol designer and security auditor at Least Authority who works on Scuttlebutt - a decentralized secure gossip platform. We discuss P2P messaging and the challenges of sending messages within a p2p network in a truly decentralised manner.
> * [Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Avinash Lakshman, Alex Pilchin, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Peter Vosshall and Werner Vogels](https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf)
> * [The Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/meet-the-counterantidisintermediationists/527553/)
> Today I'm launching something I've been working on since May to help improve the Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) ecosystem with a new type of server: SSB Rooms. As an alternative or complement to pub servers, rooms are servers intended as meeting places where peers come to discover others and establish network connections with each other.
[Secure-scuttlebutt vs scuttlebutt vs scuttlebot vs sbot?](https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/faq/basics/ssb-vs-scuttlebutt-vs-scuttlebot-vs-sbot) - Explanation of terms, repos and project history
> scuttlebutt: a gossip protocol that synchronises messages via a vector clock of per-node timestamps or sequences. Dominic got this name from an amazon paper "Efficient Reconciliation and Flow Control for Anti-Entropy Protocols". This is the original scuttlebutt module which should now be known as "insecure scuttlebutt". This repo is generally no longer used by the ssb community.
>
> ssb-db: this is the database part of ssb. Previously this term referred to the protocol/database as a whole.
>
> ssb-server: this repo adds networking behaviour to the database (secure-scuttlebutt).
>
> sbot: short for scuttlebot, previously the CLI command name to control ssb-server. Now also named ssb-server.
[*Efficient Reconciliation and Flow Control for Anti-Entropy Protocols*](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/rvr/papers/flowgossip.pdf)
> The paper shows that anti-entropy protocols can process only a limited rate of updates, and proposes and evaluates a new state reconciliation mechanism as well as a flow control scheme for anti-entropy protocols.
## Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium - GitHub Repos
[Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium](https://github.com/ssbc) - A distributed and secure peer to peer social network
- [somebodyshould](https://github.com/ssbc/somebodyshould) - A repo of suggestions / issues / bugs / ideas / feedback for ssb
> ssb handbook: A guide to the Secure Scuttlebutt key concepts and influences (see also, new website:[ssbc/scuttlebutt.nz](https://gitlab.com/ssbc/scuttlebutt.nz/))
- [modules.scuttlebutt.nz](https://github.com/ssbc/modules.scuttlebutt.nz) - Documentation for the Scuttlebutt module ecosystem
> This is an aggregation of commonly used scuttlebutt modules grouped for your convenience into several sections.
- [ssb-spec-drafts](https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-spec-drafts) - protocol specifications for Secure Scuttlebutt
> SSB-Drafts are working documents of the Secure Scuttlebutt community. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as SSB-Drafts.
>
> SSB-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use SSB-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
>
> This wording aligns with the IRTF's document track for Internet-Drafts.
- [scuttlebutt-protocol-guide](https://github.com/ssbc/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide) - Protocol documentation for Secure Scuttlebutt
> Build a set of validators using JSON schema with multiple schema versions
### Crypto
- [ssb-keys](https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-keys) - keyfile operations for ssb
- [ssb-caps](https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-caps) - The default "Caps" keys for accessing the SSB protocol using secret handshake
- [box2-spec](https://github.com/ssbc/box2-spec)
> This is a spec for encrypting messages to groups of people. Initially it will support communication for large groups which share a public key (secret key cryptography / symmetric keys), but it has also been designed to support forward-secure secret-key cryptography (a little like Signal's double-ratchet).
- [ssb-ephemeral-keys](https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-ephemeral-keys) - Methods for encrypting messages with ephemeral keys over Secure Scuttlebutt
- [secret-stack](https://github.com/ssbc/secret-stack) - connect peers to each other using secret-handshakes
- [ssb-secret-blob](https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-secret-blob) - encrypted blobs over ssb protocol
- [private-box2](https://github.com/ssbc/private-box2) - new message encryption for ssb
> ssb-plugins is a plugin that provides additional plugin related functionality to a secret-stack instance.
>
> Without ssb-plugins, plugins can only be loaded explicitly by an ssb-server with the .use() method.
>
> Generally speaking, this plugin provides the abilility for plugins to be loaded and run as a separate process, with communication over muxrpc.
- [muxrpcli](https://github.com/ssbc/muxrpcli) - command-line interface to muxrpc servers
> muxrpc aims to provide remote access to any reasonable node.js api remotely. this means it supports both streaming and async operations. pull-streams are used.
>
> It may seem at first that it would be logically cleaner to separate this into two concerns, multiplexing and request-response. Indeed, we did just that in multilevel combining mux-demux and rpc-stream however, I realized that multiplexing depends on adding framing to incoming messages, and so does rpc. If rpc is implemented as another layer on top of multiplexing, then the rpc messages end up with a second layer of framing too. By implementing one protocol that supports both streams and rpc, we were able to have both features with only a single layer of framing.
- [ssb-first-aid-kit](https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-first-aid-kit) - A user-friendly app for diagnosing and fixing problems with your Scuttlebutt installation
- [ssb-msgs](https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-msgs) - message-processing for ssb
- [scuttle-shell](https://github.com/ssbc/scuttle-shell) - A system tray app for running Secure Scuttlebutt and providing sbot features to your local system
> Channel a bunch of files from a dom event into the blob store. Get some tweaks and checks made along the way.
- [ssb-ooo](https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-ooo) - retrive ssb messages Out Of Order
- [multiblob](https://github.com/ssbc/multiblob) - A content-addressable-store that supports multiple hashing algorithms, and pull-streams
- [ssb-ahoy](https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-ahoy) - An onboarding mini-app - gets you all set up, and caught up on the gossip before you set out on your adventure
- [react-native-ssb-shims](https://github.com/ssbc/react-native-ssb-shims) - Node.js-related shims necessary for the SSB ecosystem to run on React Native apps
- [ssb-mentions](https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-mentions) - extract the mentions in a ssb message, just using the markdown.
- [ssb-replicate](https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-replicate) - ssb legacy replication, previously built into ssb-server
- [ssbc-sitegen](https://github.com/ssbc/ssbc-sitegen) - Tool to generate the GH pages for ssbc repos
- [open-dyslexic](https://github.com/ssbc/open-dyslexic)- Forked from[antijingoist/open-dyslexic](https://github.com/antijingoist/open-dyslexic) - What I intend to be an opensource font for dyslexics and for high readability
- [ssbc-owners](https://github.com/ssbc/ssbc-owners) - set org owners as npm owners
- [forked-systray/systrayhelper](https://github.com/ssbc/forked-systray/systrayhelper) - Forked from[zaaack/systray-portable](https://github.com/zaaack/systray-portable) - A portable version of go systray, using stdin/stdout to communicate with other language
