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by EGreg 1179 days ago
I know Petar Maymoukov and met w him when we started designing Intercloud.

I wanted to know the design decisions behind how Kademlia worked in detail.

Glad to see this… wondering why we need it if we have Dat/Hypercore and beaker browser, which already uses Secure Kademlia DHT for swarming and follows up with SLEEP protocol instead of Git. It is encrypted and secure, to boot.

But those saying this is federated are wrong. It is peer to peer, just like Git is. Email is federated (the domain part is even a centrally controlled database). Having said that, git can be hosted even on your own computer!