Dpush: A scalable decentralized spam resistant unsolicited messaging protocol
This addresses the need for secure and private communication to support democratic processes, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing technologies like DHT and proof of work.
The paper tackles the problem of enabling private, spam-resistant, and uncensorable messaging by introducing Dpush, a protocol that uses a distributed hash table and proof of work to achieve scalability and resistance to spam, with an implementation available in MORPHiS.
Herein this paper is presented a novel invention - called Dpush - that enables truly scalable spam resistant uncensorable automatically encrypted and inherently authenticated messaging; thus restoring our ability to exert our right to private communication, and thus a step forward in restoring an uncorrupted democracy. Using a novel combination of a distributed hash table[1] (DHT) and a proof of work[2] (POW), combined in a way that can only be called a synergy, the emergent property of a scalable and spam resistant unsolicited messaging protocol elegantly emerges. Notable is that the receiver does not need to be online at the time the message is sent. This invention is already implemented and operating within the package that is called MORPHiS - which is a Sybil[3] resistant enhanced Kademlia[1] DHT implementation combined with an already functioning implementation of Dpush, as well as a polished HTTP Dmail interface to send and receive such messages today. MORPHiS is available for free (GPLv2) at the https://morph.is website.