I see... Hmmm 🤔

That makes sense. The bottleneck isn’t the crypto but the transport layer. I’m not deeply familiar with Meshcore yet and probably will never be, but I’ve seen similar things in conflict zones where people spin up resilient local comms from almost nothing just to keep messages flowing.

I’ve also been loosely following Reticulum / R-Nodes, which seem more like a network stack than a radio itself. It's something I am considering investing in to experiment with for my small pueblo here.

Am I thinking about this correctly? That protocols like RNS layered over LoRa-style meshes could handle routing, identity, and store-and-forward in the way you’re describing?

It feels like the remaining constraint isn’t feasibility so much as adoption and coordination before the window closes.

I also think that in order to control these methods will prove to be too time consuming and too expensive but still possible. And we know how much patience these evil secret societies has had in attaining their control today over the span of thousands of years. But eh...