The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report

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  • yggdrasil-go

    An experiment in scalable routing as an encrypted IPv6 overlay network

  • The only real solution long-term is completely peer-to-peer ad-hoc networking that doesn't depend on BGP.

    A few projects are in similar territory but none I've seen are working at the layer of bypassing BGP. Many are just acting as an overlay; which works to an extent. https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go

    It's probably begging for a different model of the "internet" and where data lives.

    My requirements:

    1. Offline-first applications that sync via a pub/sub DHT of trusted peers. More details here but basically allows bypassing BGP.

  • stealth

    :rocket: Stealth - Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser/Scraper/Proxy

  • Most of the things you mentioned are implemented in the "Browser" that I've built. It's using multicast DNS to discover neighboring running instances and it has an offline cache first mentality, which means that e.g. download streams are shared among local peers.

    Global peer discovery is solved via mapping of identifiers via the reserved TLD, and via mutual TLS for identification and verification. So peers are basically pinned client certificates in your local settings.

    Works for most cases, had to implement a couple of breakout tunnel protocols though, so that peer discovery works failsafe when known IPs/ASNs are blocked.

    Relaying and scattering traffic works automatically, so that no correlation of IPs to scraped websites can be done by an MITM. Tunnel protocols are all generically implemented, DNS exfiltration, HTTPS smuggling, ICMP tunnels, and pwnat work already pretty failsafe.

    Lots of work to be done though, and had to focus on couple other things first before I can get back to the project.

    [1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth

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  • opendrop

    An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python

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