Streembit

Streembit in commercial IoT use cases

How does decentralized IoT fit into existing client-server systems?

Posted by T Z Pardi on July 15, 2016

I’ve met experienced IoT developers, business analysts, business and project leaders in the last few weeks. We discussed Streembit, our open source, decentralized, peer-to-peer IoT application. Understandably, the first question was: why should anyone switch to a completely new topology from the well tested client-server paradigm? Why should a business... [Read More]

Decentralized Internet-of-Things

IoT security and device discovery

Posted by T Z Pardi on May 12, 2016

Security and discovery are two major system requirements in Internet of Things. Decentralized peer-to-peer computing could address both. Public/private key cryptography (PPKI) is a natural element of most decentralized systems. PPKI, specifically using the public key allows a simple but robust authentication and identity management on the network. Streembit also... [Read More]

Hiding the metadata

Streembit, I2P, Tor and hiding the connection details.

Posted by T Z Pardi on April 10, 2016

We’ve received questions about hiding the metadata with Streembit, so I thought I’d go ahead and answer them. Does Streembit hide the metadata and IP addresses of the users using Tor or I2P? It seems that fully hiding the communication related metadata is not feasible, not even with Tor nor... [Read More]

Centralisation and security

Which is more secure? Centralised or decentralised software?

Posted by T. Z. Pardi on March 28, 2016

“I have nothing to hide and I don’t mind if the government is monitoring my communication” is a line often rolled out by users who are worried about terrorism and therefore willingly accept government surveillance programs. Seeing the terrible terror attacks in Belgium and around the world it is understandable... [Read More]

Internet of Things

Secure IoT devices with the decentralised P2P Streembit.

Posted by T. Z. Pardi on March 2, 2016

The world of embedded systems has met the Internet and its horde of hackers. The result is not pretty. As of writing there is no common, open standard, robust or proven authorization and access control protocol in existence for Internet of Things devices. It is troubling that robust security... [Read More]

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