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To build
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Run the following commands:
In the `serval-dna` directory, run the following commands:
autoreconf -f -i
./configure

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This repository contains the source code for the “core” Serval components
implemented in [GNU C][]:
* The **Distributed Numbering Architecture** (DNA) is the key innovation that
makes mesh telephony viable in the absence of any infrastructure, eg, in the
aftermath of a natural disaster or in remote locations. It is a protocol
carried over MDP (see below) that allows any device to ask its neighboring
devices for a phone number (DID). Such a request will propagate through the
mesh, and any device may respond with the identity (SID) of a subscriber who
has “claimed” that DID.
* The **[Distributed Numbering Architecture (DNA)][]** is the key
innovation that makes mesh telephony viable in the absence of any
infrastructure, eg, in the aftermath of a natural disaster or in remote
locations. It is a protocol carried over MDP (see below) that allows any
device to ask its neighboring devices for a phone number (DID). Such a
request will propagate through the mesh, and any device may respond with the
identity (SID) of a subscriber who has “claimed” that DID.
* The **Serval Keyring** is a flat file containing all the user identities on
* The **[Serval Keyring][]** is a flat file containing all the user identities on
a single device. Each identity is a set of elliptic curve secret
cryptographic keys that belong to a single “mesh subscriber”, indexed by the
subscriber's 256-bit public key, called a SID. Each identity in the keyring is
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from theft or tampering, and steganography to allow the user to plausibly
deny the existence of any locked identity.
* The **Mesh Datagram Protocol** (MDP) is Serval's own layer 3 protocol
* The **[Mesh Datagram Protocol (MDP)][]** is Serval's own layer 3 protocol
designed for secure mesh networking. It is completely independent of
Internet protocols such as IP and UDP, but for the time being is implemented
as an “overlay” network based on UDP/IP because that is the interface that
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source and destination addresses, and has a 32-bit port number analogous to
the 16-bit port number used in TCP/IP.
* The **Rhizome** content distribution service is a storage engine implemented
* The **[Voice over Mesh Protocol (VoMP)][]** is Serval's own call negotiation
and two-way audio streaming protocol used to implement mesh voice calls. It
is analogous to SIP/RTS, which is the dominant protocol used to implement
Voice over Internet Protocol, but VoMP is designed for the variable and
unstable conditions of wireless mesh networks. VoMP's session state model
and signalling can handle packet loss, mid-call re-routing and re-connection
where SIP would fail. VoMP's audio streaming can encapsulate many codecs
and even DTMF (dialpad button) signalling.
* The **[Rhizome][]** content distribution service is a storage engine implemented
using SQLite and a content-exchange protocol based on MDP and HTTP for the
pervasive dissemination of content like images, videos, documents, software
upgrades, etc. Each piece of content in Rhizome is called a “bundle”, which
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identifier that allows any recipient to verify that it has not been tampered
with.
* The **MeshMS** messaging service is implemented using Rhizome as its
* The **[MeshMS][]** messaging service is implemented using Rhizome as its
transport, with each thread represented as a pair of bundles, one for each
direction. At present, the MeshMS logic is implemented in Java within the
[Serval Mesh][batphone] Android app, but is planned to be re-implemented in
C as part of Serval DNA (see [issue #28][]).
* **Serval Infrastructure** services may optionally be deployed on any devices
* **[Serval Infrastructure][]** services may optionally be deployed on any devices
in the mesh to expose external services to mesh subscribers and vice versa
(eg, VoIP gateways, SMS satellite links, packetised web), and to overcome
scalability limitations of a perfectly decentralised mesh (eg, central
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License version 2][GPL2]. All source code is freely available from the Serval
Project's [serval-dna][] Git repository on [GitHub][].
The copyright in most of the source code in Serval DNA is held by Serval
Project Inc., an organisation incorporated in the state of South Australia in
the Commonwealth of Australia for the purpose of developing the Serval mesh
software.
The copyright in most of the source code in Serval DNA is held by [Serval
Project Inc.][SPI], an organisation incorporated in the state of South
Australia in the Commonwealth of Australia for the purpose of developing the
Serval mesh software.
The [Serval Project][] will accept contributions from individual developers who
have agreed to the [Serval Project Developer Agreement - Individual][individ],
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[Serval Project]: http://www.servalproject.org/
[SPI]: http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:spi
[serval-dna]: https://github.com/servalproject/serval-dna
[batphone]: https://github.com/servalproject/batphone
[issue #28]: https://github.com/servalproject/serval-dna/issues/28
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[contributors]: /servalproject/serval-dna/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md
[GitHub]: https://github.com/servalproject
[GPL2]: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
[individ]: http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=content:software:developeragreements:serval_project_inc-individual.pdf
[entity]: http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=content:software:developeragreements:serval_project_inc-entity.pdf
[individ]: http://developer.servalproject.org/files/serval_project_inc-individual.pdf
[entity]: http://developer.servalproject.org/files/serval_project_inc-entity.pdf
[Distributed Numbering Architecture (DNA)]: http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:tech:dna
[Serval Keyring]: http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:tech:keyring
[Mesh Datagram Protocol (MDP)]: http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:tech:mdp
[VoMP]: http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:tech:vomp
[Rhizome]: http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:tech:rhizome
[MeshMS]: http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:tech:meshms
[Serval Infrastructure]: http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=content:tech:serval_infrastructure
[JNI]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Native_Interface
[pipe]: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/pipe.2.html