1.0 KiB
What is it?
This is a toy implementation of an encrypted IPv6 network, with many good ideas stolen from cjdns, which was written to test a particular routing scheme that was cobbled together one random afternoon. It's notably not a shortest path routing scheme, with the goal of scalable name-independent routing on dynamic networks with an internet-like topology. It's named Yggdrasil after the world tree from Norse mythology, because that seemed like the obvious name given how it works. For a longer, rambling version of this readme with more information, see: doc. A very early incomplete draft of a whitepaper describing the protocol is also available.
This is a toy / proof-of-principle, so it's not even alpha quality software--any nontrivial update is likely to break backwards compatibility with no possibility for a clean upgrade path. You're encouraged to play with it, but it is strongly advised not to use it for anything mission critical.