An authenticated peer-to-peer network overlay.
Development notes can be found in DEVELOPING.md.
Library usage can be found in toversok/.
A proof-of-concept minimal implementation (wrapping the library) can be found in cmd/dev_client/.
Documentation for the test suite can be found in test_suite/
eduP2P is currently in the proof-of-concept stage, no fully fledged clients exists yet, but there is a working
terminal-based development program in cmd/dev_client/, as mentioned above.
Documentation on how to use the PoC (from scratch) can be found here
Toversok - the internal common-component library - provides the core of the overlay network that makes peer-to-peer connections possible.
On a high level;
- It connects to a control server, to receive peer definitions, keys, assigned IP addresses of those peers, and information about relay servers.
- On-demand, it connects to one relay server permanently, and will connect to other relay servers on-demand when sending data to their attached peers.
- It will opportunistically try to establish direct connection to peers, using relays as a fallback.
For an in-depth overview of the design, you can look at ARCHITECTURE.md.
This project received funding through NGI Assure, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet program. Learn more at the NLnet project page.
Furthermore, the test suite of the project received funding through NLnet's VPN Fund, which is established in collaboration with The Commons Conservancy. A description of the test suite features made possible thanks to this funding can be found in the test suite documentation.
