Back to 2018: Birth of the Berty projectĪt that time, after about a month of research split in two teams, one team testing Peer-to-Peer networking technologies, and another one experimenting with direct transport technologies - more precisely Apple MultipeerConnectivity - we agreed on implementing the following stack for our chat application: Joking aside, to celebrate the fact that our first transport allowing direct connections between devices is about to be released (🍾), let’s retrace the long chronology of our work on the development of this feature. So yes, because we are sure that most (all?) of you are interested in this use case, with Berty, you will have the opportunity to chat with your friends in the middle of the Sahara desert! 🎉 One of the features that we feel is essential for a peer-to-peer messaging application worthy of the name is the ability to communicate directly between devices (off-grid communication without internet access). It aims to preserve both the anonymity and the privacy of the users. As you probably know, we are developing Berty, a peer-to-peer messaging application with no regulatory authority and no metadata collection.
