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# Reticulum
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Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking protocol for both local and wide-area networks built on readily available hardware. Reticulum can operate even with very high latency and extremely low bandwidth.
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The vision of Reticulum is to allow anyone to operate their own sovereign communication networks, and to make it cheap and easy to cover vast areas with a myriad of independent, interconnectable and autonomous networks.
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<p align="center"><img width="30%" src="gfx/reticulum_logo_512.png"></p>
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Reticulum **is not** *one* network. It is **a tool** for building *thousands of networks*. Networks without kill-switches, surveillance, censorship and control. Networks that can freely interoperate, associate and disassociate with each other. Reticulum is Networks for Human Beings. Reticulum is Unstoppable Networks for The People.
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## Notable Characteristics
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While Reticulum solves the same problem that any network stack does, namely to get data reliably from one point to another over a number of intermediaries, it does so in a way that is very different from other networking technologies.
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- Reticulum does not use source addresses. No packets transmitted include information about the address, place, machine or person they originated from.
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- There is no central control over the address space in Reticulum. Anyone can allocate as many addresses as they need, when they need them.
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- Reticulum ensures end-to-end connectivity. Newly generated addresses become globally reachable in a matter of seconds to a few minutes.
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- Addresses are *self-sovereign* and *portable*. Once an address has been created, it can be moved physically to another place in the network, and continue to be reachable.
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- All communication is secured with [strong, modern encryption](crypto.html) by default.
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- All encryption keys are ephemeral, and all communication offers forward secrecy.
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- It is not possible to establish unencrypted links in Reticulum networks.
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- It is not possible to send unencrypted packets to any destinations in the network.
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- Destinations receiving unencrypted packets will reject them as invalid.
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- The routing layer is not able to route unencrypted packets, and such packets will be dropped.
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<p align="right"><a href="start.html">Next Topic: Get Started</a></p>
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