Paper
Ember: A Serverless Peer-to-Peer End-to-End Encrypted Messaging System over an IPv6 Mesh Network
Authors
Hamish Alsop, Leandros Maglaras, Naghmeh Moradpoor
Abstract
This paper presents Ember, a serverless peer-to-peer messaging system providing end-to-end encrypted communication over a decentralised IPv6 mesh network. Ember operates without central servers, enforces data minimisation through ciphertext-only local storage and time-based message expiration, and prioritises architectural clarity, explicit trust boundaries, and practical deployability on Android. The paper describes the system architecture, cryptographic design, network model, and security properties -- including dynamic testing results demonstrating that no plaintext is recoverable from captured network traffic -- and discusses limitations and future work
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