[p2p-hackers] New project: P2P VPN, sort of...

[David Barrett]

Sounds like a fantastic project.  Just curious, how difficult was it to 
get the TUN driver up and running?

Also, have you thought of abstracting out the P2P/DHT component away 
from the TUN component, such that someone could use the former without 
the latter?  It seems the P2P/DHT part could be kept platform 
independent, while the TUN part couldn't.  It'd be great to have a 
drop-in P2P/DHT layer, without needing to install a TUN driver (or 
without depending on Unix).

-david

Luca Piccarreta wrote:
> Hi all,
> my name is Luca Piccarreta, I've implemented a sort of P2P application 
> (based on a KAD network)
> with an embedded VPN (well.... not yet private :) based on a TUN
> driver, and a ridiculous name server which map DNS requests to
> Kad queries.
> In the end, the application should be a big firewall opener, on top
> of which it should be easy to build P2P applications, or to connect to
> computers behind NAT/firewalls.
> Of course, all the code has been written in a hurry, but I think that with
> the help of someone it could become a very nice application.
> If you want an idea of what it should become, have at look at Hamachi
> (http://www.hamachi.cc), and add on top of that the ability to refer to
> peers with friendly name (say http://name_of_an_host.kad)
> 
> What's there:
>    - KAD network (own flavour, not compatible with Emule or whatever)
>    - TUN interface and forwarding (got from OpenVPN TAP-WIN32 driver 
>        and bits and pieces of code)
>    - Nameservice (trivial, but working)
>    - Linux/WIN32
>    - C++
> 
> What's not there:
>    - Message signing/encryption
>    - A nice GUI
>    - Some users...
>    - A home page
> 
> The project is at sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/x-kad)
> 
> Eagerly waiting for volunteers!
> Luca.
> 
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