yggdrasil network vs gnunet about yggdrasil-go HOT 6 OPEN

Yggdrasil is a experimental routing schema. It's focus is to find out how to efficiently route in a large scale distributed network. It's focus is not on providing anonymity.

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We're probably gonna need the whitepaper on TRANSPORT to figure that part out 🙂

The service provided by the current Yggdrasil program is analogous to GNUNet's Virtual Public Network (except faster because weaker anonymity guarantees), and that is also the fundamental service provided by the software.

The true goal of Ygg is to try to perform flat address space routing without requiring any routing configuration, huge routing tables, huge amounts of bandwidth just to keep the network working, or a semi-trusted quorum of central routers. This is an open research question for which ygg is a prototype. If successful, we could have a self-hosting-friendly Internet that you can connect to by using your favourite combination of ISP backhauls, directed wi-fi to your friend's house, etc... and everything works.

You can see https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/about.html for more on what I'm talking about.

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gnunet is more mature, stable and researched upon.

honestly...? all 3? Everyone wants gnunet to kick ass. the world needs a better gnunet.

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Comparing Yggdrasil and GNUnet is like comparing apples to oranges. Yggdrasil functions as a OSI layer 3 drop-in replacement. Software that speaks IPv6 can simply work on top of Yggdrasil.

GNUnet on the other hand seems to require deeper integration to work:

Thus, we need to think about GNUnet primarily as a collection of APIs providing various core functions for future Internet applications.

• The GNUnet System, https://grothoff.org/christian/habil.pdf

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