Hi Renato,
Sounds interesting and quite similar to UIA - can you compare?
Project site: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/uia/
OSDI '06 paper: http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/papers/uia:osdi06.pdf
I guess one obvious technical difference is that you're bootstrapping
from Facebook whereas we bootstrap directly "peer-to-peer", primarily
through "in-person" introductions of (mobile) personal devices on
common LANs. (We designed UIA before the Facebook API was
available.) Both approaches make sense and are probably
complementary. Can you comment on other similarities/differences?
Cheers,
Bryan
On Jul 31, 2008, at 11:07 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
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