The novelty will eliminate the possibility of surveillance and espionage on the Internet, securely encrypting user data.
Last week we told you that one of the oldest hacker associations called "Cult of the Dead Cow" announced a decentralized platform Veilid, which provides ample opportunities for anonymous communication on the Internet.
Well, the representatives of the association kept their promise and presented their creation at the recent Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas. The developers described Veilid as an open source project that allows applications to exchange information directly between clients in a decentralized manner.
The idea of the project is that mobile, desktop, web applications and even applications without an interface can find each other on the Internet and communicate privately and securely, bypassing centralized corporate systems. Veilid provides code for developers to enable their clients to join the peer-to-peer community.
According to the cult representatives, they have been working on this project for the last three years. The system is written primarily in Rust using Dart and Python. It combines aspects of the anonymous Tor network and the peer-to-peer InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).
If apps on different devices connect through Veilid, they cannot determine each other's IP addresses and locations, which is important for privacy. Application developers also cannot get this information.
The project uses 256-bit public keys as identifiers. There are no special nodes, a single point of failure, too. Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, and web apps are supported.
Connections are authenticated, encrypted and digitally signed to prevent eavesdropping and tampering. For the encryption itself, strong algorithms are used to eliminate any possibility of unauthorized access to data.
Files are fully encrypted, and encrypted table storage APIs are available for developers. Keys can also be password protected.
“Billionaires are trying to monetize these connections, many fall for this bait. We have to provide an alternative,” said Caitlin Bowden, one of the developers of Veilid.
To demonstrate the capabilities of the platform, the team created VeilidChat, a secure messenger modeled after Signal. The cult hopes that other developers will connect Veilid to their apps so that users can enjoy the benefits of the network without getting into technical details.
Hackers are confident that if the project becomes widespread, it will deal a serious blow to the economy of surveillance and surveillance. This has been done before with varying degrees of success, but the Cult of the Dead Cow has built up a reputation over the years for getting things done. So the project looks very interesting and promising.
The source code and description of the Veilid platform are already available on GitLab. It will be interesting to see what third-party developers have to offer to expand the capabilities of such an ambitious project, designed to take anonymity and privacy on the Web to a new level.
Last week we told you that one of the oldest hacker associations called "Cult of the Dead Cow" announced a decentralized platform Veilid, which provides ample opportunities for anonymous communication on the Internet.
Well, the representatives of the association kept their promise and presented their creation at the recent Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas. The developers described Veilid as an open source project that allows applications to exchange information directly between clients in a decentralized manner.
The idea of the project is that mobile, desktop, web applications and even applications without an interface can find each other on the Internet and communicate privately and securely, bypassing centralized corporate systems. Veilid provides code for developers to enable their clients to join the peer-to-peer community.
According to the cult representatives, they have been working on this project for the last three years. The system is written primarily in Rust using Dart and Python. It combines aspects of the anonymous Tor network and the peer-to-peer InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).
If apps on different devices connect through Veilid, they cannot determine each other's IP addresses and locations, which is important for privacy. Application developers also cannot get this information.
The project uses 256-bit public keys as identifiers. There are no special nodes, a single point of failure, too. Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, and web apps are supported.
Connections are authenticated, encrypted and digitally signed to prevent eavesdropping and tampering. For the encryption itself, strong algorithms are used to eliminate any possibility of unauthorized access to data.
Files are fully encrypted, and encrypted table storage APIs are available for developers. Keys can also be password protected.
“Billionaires are trying to monetize these connections, many fall for this bait. We have to provide an alternative,” said Caitlin Bowden, one of the developers of Veilid.
To demonstrate the capabilities of the platform, the team created VeilidChat, a secure messenger modeled after Signal. The cult hopes that other developers will connect Veilid to their apps so that users can enjoy the benefits of the network without getting into technical details.
Hackers are confident that if the project becomes widespread, it will deal a serious blow to the economy of surveillance and surveillance. This has been done before with varying degrees of success, but the Cult of the Dead Cow has built up a reputation over the years for getting things done. So the project looks very interesting and promising.
The source code and description of the Veilid platform are already available on GitLab. It will be interesting to see what third-party developers have to offer to expand the capabilities of such an ambitious project, designed to take anonymity and privacy on the Web to a new level.
