Research

Freedomlayer is a research project for creating a distributed secure and efficient Internet. We collect here articles about the subject.

Intro

• Intro to the internet and current issues

• The Mesh Question

Distributed Hash Tables

• Intro to Distributed Hash Tables

• Stabilizing Chord

• Basic DHT Security Concepts

Mesh Routing

• Sqrt(n) Mesh routing

• Virtual DHT Routing:

  • Experimenting with Virtual DHT Routing

  • About cycles in stationary states of VDHT routing algorithms

  • Multi Named VDHT Routing

  • A globally connected overlay for Virtual Ring Routing [pdf]

• Landmarks based Routing:

  • Landmarks Navigation by Random Walking

  • Landmarks routing with lookahead experiment results

  • Node coordinate discovery by uniform hashing

• The Distributed Post Office: Instant Hierarchy for Mesh Networks

• The Unified Challenge-Response: Secure Time inside the Mesh

• A bound for Universal Routing on trees [pdf]

• Approximating the size of a mesh network

• The connectivity of sqrt(n) towers

Distributed Banking

• The Trusted Supernode and Distributed Banking