The recent "hornet" protocol is somewhat similar. It is an academic
cryptographic network-level protocol as well, designed as a faster
alternative to TOR by researchers from Carnegie Mellon Univ, ETH Zurich,
and university College London. It isn't necessarily easy to use,
however. Check out http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.05724v1.pdf if you're
interested, or just google "hornet protocol" and you'll see several
blogs summarizing hornet, some of which are inaccurate.
On 07/29/2015 03:42 AM, Mattias Eliasson wrote:
Hi
For quite some time I've been thinking about how to release Internet
from various problems and now that I found the OpenWireless project
I'll share some of my ideas to see what response I get. I've spent a
lot of time thinking about usability and cost of deployment rather
than just focusing on technical issues. I think that the usability
perspective is very important. The easier it is for users to open up
their networks, the more users will join.
While analysing the technical and security aspect of this idea please
also consider the usability aspect. This idea is very plug and play
and allows for the creation of a router and installable software that
will connect users without additional configuration. Its usage as a
flexible VPN technology alone makes it a free alternative to Cisco:s
Dynamic Multipoint VPN. Of course the latter will require some
configuration but not more than any VPN service. For the network
administrator it will probably be far easier to set up this as a VPN
than any traditional technology.
My suggestion is to make a new network-level protocol that allows for
automatic configuration of mesh networking. Let's call it the CIP,
Cryptographic Internet Protocol. It's inspired by Serval Project’s
MDP, Mesh Datagram Protocol.
Like MDP and other cryptographic protocols like TOR and I2P it relies
on self generated public keys for addressing, and encryption to secure
its contents and provide some degree of anonymity. From MDP we can
derive automatic routing. This makes it fully distributed and "plug
and play". Fast autonomous mesh networking was the main design goal,
not anonymity. Whatever anonymity it provides that’s just a bonus.
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