Earth Browser - Building a Browser for Reticulum
What is Reticulum?
Reticulum is a public domain networking stack by Mark Qvist. No source addresses on any packet. Mandatory encryption — X25519 key exchange, Ed25519 signatures, forward secrecy on every link. Destinations are locally generated keypairs: no DNS, no certificate authorities, no registration.
It runs over anything — LoRa, packet radio, WiFi, Ethernet, TCP/IP tunnels, I2P, serial.
Sovereignty is structural here. You generate your own address. You run your own node. No one grants or revokes participation.
The gap
Reticulum has messaging, terminal pages, file transfer, encrypted voice, remote shell. What it doesn’t have is a browser. No way to render HTML+CSS over Reticulum transport. That means no rich publishing, no web-style commerce, no interactive applications on the network.
Earth Browser
I’m forking Tor Browser and replacing Tor with Reticulum. Tor Browser already has years of anti-fingerprinting hardening and a SOCKS5 proxy architecture — keep all of that, swap the transport.
JS off by default, toggleable with warnings. Ephemeral cryptographic identities by default, persistent identity opt-in per destination. No TLS since Reticulum handles encryption at transport.
I’ll be documenting the build here as I go. WISH ME LUCK!