[Freedombox-discuss] Erlang

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 11-06-21 at 02:48pm, William Gardella wrote:
> Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:
> 
> > On 11-06-21 at 02:16pm, William Gardella wrote:
> >> Matthew Evans <mattevans123 at hotmail.com>
> >> writes:
> >> > I could, for example, imagine a chat server deployed by a person 
> >> > in a restrictive country. From the perspective of the chat server 
> >> > owner their service is running locally on their own Freedom box, 
> >> > however in actual fact it would be running on a Freedom box in 
> >> > another country.
> >> 
> >> Off the top of my head, ejabberd is a prominent, distributed 
> >> Erlang-based chat server project, and already in debian-stable.  It 
> >> could probably be used, e.g., to allow users on a wireless mesh 
> >> network in the censored country to reach a node of the jabber 
> >> server, which would then be connected to other nodes abroad via a 
> >> VPN...
> >
> > I know about ejabberd.  I use it on several servers.
> >
> > I am unaware, however, how ejabberd can be (internally Erlang-like, 
> > not using standard XMPP protocol) distributed across multiple 
> > FreedomBoxes.
> >
> > Information on how to do that would be quite interesting.  For me, 
> > perhaps others here as well, and most likely also for the Debian 
> > maintainer of ejabberd!

> I was able to find this interesting article about clustering in an 
> "erlangy" way, using synchronized Erlang mnesia databases.
> 
> http://tdewolf.blogspot.com/2009/07/clustering-ejabberd-nodes-using-mnesia.html
> 
> Does this look like something that could be boiled down into a nice 
> little script, provided the admin of node #1 made the ejabberd cookie 
> file and mnesia database available to other FBs?

Thanks.

I agree that it seems possible to automate with a small script. Or 
better: To integrate with Debian package install routines.

But I begin to realize why this might not be interesting at all for 
FreedomBox: It seems to require *full* trust across the board.  Not a 
good security design: Even two sisters may have secrets for each other.


 - Jonas

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