Grenache

[prdn]

Hello all

learning from Pigato experience I'm working on a lightweight and really distributed solution that I'd like to present to you all:
https://github.com/bitfinexcom/grenache

My aim is to keep it simple but allow complex constructions and patterns without enforcing the protocol.

What do you think?

[prdn]

@allain @bmeck @moperacz @DenisGorbachev @alexeygolev I'd like your opinion especially

[allain]

I like what your doing. I've read through the JavaScript side of things and the code reads like you'd expect (well done).

I'd like to see more examples of how clients can store arbitrary data in the dht.

I'm not really seeing much in the way of security but I suspect that's part of the dht (admittedly I haven't read it all yet).

Also, have you given any thought to how you might handle requests made while a peer who could handle it isn't online at the time?

It looks like the connect code just returns the first peer it finds, it probably should be at least random.

Anyway, this looks good.

Do you have a list of things to be done somewhere?

Cheers.

[prdn]

@allain thanks a lot for your feedback

Right now the DHT is used only to let clients to discover other clients, but yes, the next step is to add the the grape put / get methods to retrieve and store informations from the DHT.

What I like of this approach is that is really fast, the throughput is incredible higher than pigato and it has less constraints

Regarding the security we have several options to think about. I'd like to create a layer on top of Grenache to let Clients publish/fetch encrypted informations using pre-shared keys or asymmetric encryption. Lot to think about.

Let's move the discussion here bitfinexcom/grenache#2