2014-02-15 01:06:24 +08:00
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It has come to our attention that to achieve decent market penetration Tox
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must work behind ALL internet connections, may they be behind enterprise NATs
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or any other bad network conditions.
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The people who have issues with the UDP direct connection approach seem to be a
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small minority though it is hard to estimate how many.
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This means that routing their packets using good nodes on the network will
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probably not take a huge toll on the network and will assure that people
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can use Tox regardless of the quality of their internet connection.
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How it's probably going to work:
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1. Alice, a Tox client on a TCP only network generates a temporary public key
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2014-02-23 06:06:07 +08:00
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and connects to a bootstrap node.
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2014-02-15 01:06:24 +08:00
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2014-03-04 20:48:38 +08:00
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2. Using the bootstrap node she finds and connects to a (exact number to be
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determined later) number of random nodes that have TCP relay support.
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2014-02-15 01:06:24 +08:00
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3. She uses the onion through the TCP relay connections to send friend requests
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or tell online friends which TCP nodes she is connected to and her temporary
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public key.
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4. Bob receives an onion packet from Alice telling him which nodes she is
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connected to. Bob connects to these nodes and establishes a routed connection
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with alice using that temporary public key.
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5. That connection is used by both to transmit encrypted Messenger and A/V
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packets.
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2014-03-04 20:48:38 +08:00
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6. If one of the nodes shuts down while it is routing traffic, Alice and Bob
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just switch to one of the other nodes to which they are both connected.
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2014-02-15 01:06:24 +08:00
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2014-03-04 20:48:38 +08:00
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Actual implementation details coming soon.
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