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by tambourine_man
926 days ago
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By reading the title I imagined a brand new way address routing. That’s how high I regard Tailscale, I guess. I remember watching many years ago a talk about a mesh network scheme where its users would unambiguously assign themselves addresses through some hash function. I was fascinated by this concept of generating my own address (instead of having it assign to me) and that it could possibly be mine forever, perhaps associated with some biometric marker. Anyway, this is also cool, just less ambitious :) |
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Was it this one -> https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/ ?
Anyway, I fully agree with you. Assigning meaningless (and therefore collision-prone and spoofable) numbers to people/machines just seems like such an arcane idea in light of all the cryptographic advances people have made.
Whatever network I configure, I always need to worry about collisions or possible misconfigurations. Whether I set up some private VPN for myself and have to worry about potential spoofed IP packets from outside, or whether I connect to a corporate VPN from home and suddenly I can no longer ping 1.1.1.1 because their IT department couldn't be bothered to configure their routes correctly. It's insane.