Ken Meltsner <meltsner@gmail.com> wrote:
Basically, a way to get around NAT and other router issues for a peer-to-peer system, mostly seamlessly integrated as a special network driver. Systems connect to a back end server which relays traffic between peers on named private networks. Sort of P2P meets VPN -- if they added HTTPS tunneling, it would run through nearly any corporate firewall/proxy server.
Well if they really relayed traffic between peers on their back end server their pipe would be saturated. (Think kazaa or bit-torrent over hamachi). I hope they actually use the server just for mediation, and send the traffic direct between peers. Unfortunately the documentation is rather light so it's difficult to tell what it does in this regard. I've cc'd Alex Pankratov who is the author (I presume). However maybe this beta version is not complete in that regard. Some other things such as the server mediated key exchange are obviously not shipable grade (server knows all symmetric keys!) Adam