thicket

Encrypted/ Cryptographic identity/ Peer‑to‑peer/ Long range/ Off‑grid

Handheld messaging that works where there is no network. No towers, no accounts, no company in the middle.

Your identity is a keypair the device makes itself, never a username issued to you. Messages are encrypted to the person you are writing to and routed by whatever radio is in earshot. It runs on Reticulum, a networking stack with no addresses to assign and no authority to ask. Most of its messaging clients assume a computer or a phone. Thicket is hardware built for it directly, carrying the whole stack on a low-power microcontroller rather than an application processor.

The first is a sealed handheld messenger. Others will follow it.

Status

Currently building the firmware: the whole stack running on the device itself, with no phone and no computer involved.

Nothing is shipping. No hardware is for sale. The firmware has not yet run on a board.

RNS·LXMF/ 915 MHz/ nRF52840/ SX1262

Following along

Firmware is GPL-3.0-or-later. Reticulum and LXMF are Mark Qvist’s work. Wordmark set in Bitcount, SIL Open Font License 1.1.