Decentralized message queue

[Anonymous Monk]

I'm curious if anyone has created a redundant message queue system for an untrusted environment? The more I think about this, the more I really hope someone else has already done this:
- node would have to know the host of at least one server
- server would tell the node about the other servers
- node would send out heartbeat pings and pick closest server to get instructions from
- all data is signed and confirmed befor node runs it or server imports it
- server randomly asks another node to check data it has recieved (either that has been synced from another server in the cluster or from a client)

And the bad part, I'm probably leaving out some ways an evil server or client could obscure the data. So, is there anything that can handle this for me?

[zentara]

Use Secure Shell? Possibly a Net::SSH2 script?

[ag4ve]

That's a fine secure data transport layer, but is not a message queue. I found spread.org and I think that will do most of what I want and I can program a spam like trust system for updating the config.

Though, if there is something better, I'm still at the research phase.