I've used these in the past (DVD format) without a problem so far, but back then you really had to make sure to buy a DVD drive that supported M-Disc writing (for reading any DVD drive will work). Don't know how that's changed more recently. I guess they have Blue-ray format now which is much better in the regard. One thing to keep in mind is their claims to longevity are based on extrapolating from design and testing in the short term; there's no real way to support their claims without actual experience. So YMMV and take that into account in your planning.

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GM ☕ It is a thoroughly satisfying feeling seeing the FIPS mesh networking software enable so many different use cases, especially ones I would never have thought of in the first place. But it's not without a bit of anxiety--real world usage means real world consequences of screwing up. I put a lot of effort into specification, review, adversarial testing, and documentation, but that of course isn't always enough. Your bug reports, feature requests, and code contributions are the kind of "closed loop" feedback needed to keep things on track. Anyway, thanks to everyone for deploying FIPS and helping make it better.

https://github.com/jmcorgan/fips-initramfs/releases/tag/v0.1.1 Bug fix release. Thanks for the report and testing.

Sure it is!

I was supposedly retired from open source but something happened.

No, there are two totally independent layers of encryption involved. The first is end-to-end. Each FIPS node when talking to any other FIPS node negotiates and end-to-end authenticated encryption session between them that only each other can read. The second is hop by hop between peers. Each connected peer has a separate encryption session, and passes along the opaque blobs of data from the above unchanged. So no FIPS node can read any traffic passing through it.

Fallacies of distributed computing: The network is reliable. Latency is zero. Bandwidth is infinite. The network is secure. Topology doesn't change. There is one administrator. Transport cost is zero. The network is homogeneous. - L. Peter Deutsch, Sun Microsystems, 1994.

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