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The Nomad Network Guide
Concepts and Terminology
Concepts and Terminology
The following section will briefly introduce various concepts and terms used in the program.
Peer
A peer refers to another Nomad Network client, which will generally be operated by another person. But since Nomad Network is a general LXMF client, it could also be any other LXMF client, program, automated system or machine that can communicate over LXMF.
All peers (and nodes) are identified by their address (which is, technically speaking, a Reticulum destination hash). An address consist of 32 hexadecimal characters (16 bytes), and looks like this:
e9eafceea9e3664a5c55611c5e8c420a>
Anyone can choose whatever display name they want, but addresses are always unique, and generated from the unique cryptographic keys of the peer. This is an important point to understand. Since there is not anyone controlling naming or address spaces in Nomad Network, you can easily come across another user with the same display name as you.
Your addresses will always be unique though, and you must always verify that the address you are communicating with is matching the address of the peer you expect to be in the other end.
To make this easier, Nomad Network allows you to mark peers and nodes as either trusted, unknown or untrusted. In this way, you can mark the peers and nodes that you know to be legitimate, and easily spot peers with similar names as unrelated.
Announces
An announce can be sent by any peer or node on the network, which will notify other peers
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