Nettle: A Distributed P2P Protocol

Nettle is a peer to peer (P2P) protocol. The design is currently similar to Kademlia.

Goals

• Be independent of the underlying physical network (physical or otherwise)
• Have no single authentication or authorisation authority
• Support hosting both static and dynamic content (the latter via CRDTs)
• Automatic peering and route healing
• Redundant storage of data with active work reallocation as nodes enter and leave the network

Non-goals (for now)

• Spam/DOS resistance
• Security (an attempt has been made, but without guarantees. Do not use this for anything you really care about)