This sounds cool, but I don't quite understand what it's used for. Can you give a common-use example?
-david On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 8:07 pm, Renato Figueiredo wrote: > Dear list members, > > We have developed SocialVPN (socialvpn.org), a P2P virtual network that > uses social network infrastructures to seamlessly bootstrap VPN links > between social peers. > > The SocialVPN builds upon the open-source Brunet P2P library. We have > extended the IPOP (IP-over-P2P) virtual network, a structured P2P > system which features decentralized UDP hole punching, optimizations > tailored to IP tunneling, and support for multicast DNS > (Bonjour/Avahi). A key novel aspect of the SocialVPN is its ability to > avoid conflicts between the VPN and a host's existing IPv4 network by > using private networks and dynamic address translation, a technique > described in the COPS workshop this year. > > Our current implementation runs on Windows or Linux and uses the > Facebook API, and bootstraps with an overlay deployed on PlanetLab. We > are planning on implementations for other platforms and to support the > OpenSocial API. If you are interested in using this software or develop > applications around it, you can find documentation and downloads at > http://socialvpn.org. > > Regards, > --rf _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
