Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the pointer, it looks very interesting - we will check it out.

Are there technical documents describing the architecture of the system you
could also point to?

Bests,
--rf

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Jeff Capone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Renato,
>
> You might want to check out http://apps.facebook.com/leaflobby/
>
> "Leaf Develops Peer-to-Peer App for Facebook"
> (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2324639,00.asp)
>
> It actully integrates in to the user's Facebook profile.
>
> It is marketed a game lobby but really is just a VPN connection.
>
> Best,
> Jeff
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Renato
> Figueiredo
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:08 PM
> To: theory and practice of decentralized computer networks
> Subject: [p2p-hackers] Announcing: P2P social VPN
>
>
> 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
>
>
>


-- 
Dr. Renato J. Figueiredo
Associate Professor
ACIS Lab / Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Florida
http://byron.acis.ufl.edu
ph: 352-392-6430
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