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Update How Briar Connects to Contacts

Daniel Lublin
2021-02-24 12:02:01 +00:00
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How-Briar-Connects-to-Contacts.md

@@ -4,4 +4,12 @@ Messages are exchanged with each contact over whatever connections are available
When adding a contact in person, all Bluetooth connections to other contacts are temporarily closed to ensure that a connection can be made to the new contact.
If a contact is outside wifi or Bluetooth range, Briar doesn't use other devices that are in range to relay data to the contact.
If a contact is outside wifi or Bluetooth range, Briar doesn't use other devices that are in range to relay data to the contact.
# WLAN
The last few known IPv4/IPv6 LAN-addresses are shared as [transport properties](Transport-Properties-Client). If two contacts are connected to the same WLAN (Wifi) and at least one of them know the other's current LAN-address from the shared property, then connection should be possible directly over WLAN, even if it has no Internet-connection. But other factors are also involved.
## Regarding IPv6
akwizgran: at the moment most devices have a single ipv6 link-local address that's stable across lans. so once you know this address for a contact you should be able to reach them on any lan. but this is a privacy issue for users (they can be tracked across lans) so i believe android's moving towards using a pseudo-random lan-specific ipv6 address. simultaneously, android is tightening up apps' access to ipv6 addresses by hiding ipv6-only network interfaces from apps. so we may not be able to share a list of lan-specific ipv6 addresses with contacts, in the way we do with ipv4 addresses