24: Building FIPS w/ Johnathan Corgan
Published: April 16, 2026
Duration: 35:46
“Don’t be afraid of going your own way.”
Johnathan Corgan & Gigi take a walk in Madeira. Recorded during SEC-07.
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In this dialogue:
Why FIPS started with Arjen asking for networking that does not depend on registrars, central authorities, or yankable domain names Johnathan disappearing for a month after Costa Rica, then returning with a protocol design that scratched the itch FIPS as a self-organizing peer mesh: no privileged coordinator, only what each node can enforce locally Transport-agnostic networking: Ethernet, Bluetooth, UDP overlays, Tor, serial links, and whatever else c...