[hovering_nox]

I tried to use Iroh but had a few problems.

It uses a third server to facilitate initial p2p connections but I keep loosing/fail to connect to this server. I don't know if it's because of many restarts during development or something else.

Windows Defender nukes this from orbit, making it nearly impossible to ship to clients in a trusting fashion. But I guess any program which punches through the firewall is suspect.

[wongarsu]

Windows Defender is an interesting challenge. It would be interesting to know if signing the executable has a positive effect here. At $previouscompany we had a software that looked very keylogger-like, and all our Windows Defender issues vanished once we started using EV codesigning certificates. They are not cheap ($300/year), but Defender seems to take the fact that the code is bound to a verified legal entity as a strong trust signal

[flub]

That's interesting, because the connection to the relay server is established using HTTP1.1 over TLS. Followed by a WebSocket upgrade. It should look like any other webserver connection on the internet. Could be worth investigating your network conditions and filing an issue for this.