Tuesday, October 31, 2006

p2p -> q2q

I've been playing around with divmod.org quotiont 2 quotient protocol implementation called vertex.

The q2q protocol is a p2p protocol where you can basically connect to a thing called a "resource".

The Protocol offers resource look up (Where is X?) and authentication (Is it X I'm talking to). The most interesting bit for me is that they implemented STUN and NAT traversal.

Vertex is a demo and proof-of-concept type implementation of this protocol which uses this protocol to authenticate users and send files through the connection.