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```{index} pair: Protocol; Secure Scuttlebutt
single: Secure Scuttlebutt
```
(SSB)=
# Secure Scuttlebutt
## Feeds & Metafeeds
- Peers maintain a list of feeds they subscribe to
- When peers connect, they ask for updates to subscribed feeds
- Metafeeds can provide metadata about other feeds, and can form a tree structure with other Metafeeds as subfeeds.
- {index}`Bencoded <single: Encoding; Bencoding>` rather than JSON.
```{mermaid}
flowchart LR
subgraph Main [Main Feed]
mf["`Main Feed Posts
*metafeed/announce*
message`"]
end
subgraph Meta [Meta feed]
direction TB
mf1["`Metafeed posts
*metafeed/add/existing
message`"]
mf2["`Metafeed posts
*metafeed/add/existing
message`"]
mf3["`Metafeed posts
*metafeed/add/derived
message`"]
mf4["`Metafeed posts
*metafeed/add/existing
message`"]
mf1 --> mf2
mf2 --> mf3
mf3 --> mf4
end
subgraph SubfeedA [Subfeed A]
direction LR
sfa1["`Application specific
message in subfeed`"]
sfa2["`Application specific
message in subfeed`"]
sfa1 --> sfa2
end
subgraph SubfeedB [Subfeed B]
direction LR
sfb1["`Application specific
message in subfeed`"]
sfb2["`Application specific
message in subfeed`"]
sfb1 --> sfb2
end
subgraph SubfeedC [Subfeed C]
direction LR
sfc1["`Application specific
message in subfeed`"]
sfc2["`Application specific
message in subfeed`"]
sfc1 --> sfc2
end
subgraph SubfeedD [Subfeed D]
direction LR
sfd1["`Application specific
message in subfeed`"]
sfd2["`Application specific
message in subfeed`"]
sfd1 --> sfd2
end
Main --> Meta
Meta --> SubfeedA
Meta --> SubfeedB
Meta --> SubfeedC
Meta --> SubfeedD
```
Uses for metafeeds
- Storing multiple network identities with a special feed off the user's root metafeed. (contents of metafeed entries can be encrypted)
- Allow for multiple devices to use the same identity - https://github.com/ssbc/fusion-identity-spec
- Device A `invite`s Device B to identity
- Device B `consent`s
- Device A `entrust`s phone with private key
- Device B posts a `proof-of-key` message
- If device B lost, `tombstone` the fusion identity message
## Implementations
```{index} Secure Scuttlebutt; Manyverse
```
### Manyverse
## References
- https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/