RNS β 0.7.7

This release adds support for automatic encryption key ratcheting for all packets, not just those sent over Reticulum links. In practical terms, this adds forward secrecy to packets sent with the raw Packet API.

In this release, the ratchets feature must be enabled on a per-destination basis by calling the enable_ratchets method on the relevant destination. In a future release, ratchets may become the default option, but for backwards-compatibility, it is currently optional. For more information, read the API documentation.

Please note! Versions of RNS prior to 0.7.7 will not be able to pass announces for destinations with ratchets enabled! If you use applications that can use ratchets (for example, LXMF version 0.5.0 and up), it is important that you update all transport instances on your network to 0.7.7.

Thanks to @deavmi, @faragher, @jacobeva, @jeremy and @jeremybox for contributing to this release!

Changes

• Added key ratchet rotation and signalling
• Added ratchet API to documentation
• Added initial support for flashing T-Echo devices to rnodeconf
• Added remote management config options to example config
• Added automtic integration tests to source repository
• Fixed a regression that caused RNS not to work on Python versions lower than 3.10
• Fixed missing establishment_rate property init on Link objects

Release Hashes

0a3ab6dc82567a19adabe737358daee3002b60beda8ac0bf228f2a0c134ff6d8 rns-0.7.7-py3-none-any.whl
89b33fe9ab923139d3f5d43726d92817642be05a8c9d328c3becfc3c409e4b4b rnspure-0.7.7-py3-none-any.whl