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New comment by dhaavi in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

dhaavi — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:26:55 +0000

Can you communicate the value of Octelium in 25 words or less?

New comment by dhaavi in "Jack Dorsey launches White Noise, his next decentralized chat app after Bitchat"

dhaavi — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 05:01:15 +0000

This is the correct capitalisation.

Thanks. Made my day.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Mon, 12 May 2025 07:48:25 +0000

Mycoria is built for resilience - so not relying on the current Internet backbone working flawlessly.

Even if the current Internet works "normally", many users of similar network have reported better connectivity with the overlay network routing. Eg. routing on the IANA Internet is highly influenced.

If you let Mycoria generate a config for you, it will include your current public Interfaces on the device, so this will only be true for servers. Mycoria does not rely on IANA addresses, but uses them to improve the network structure automatically: Finding better routes between routers over the IANA Internet.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Mon, 12 May 2025 07:43:14 +0000

For the use case given by Zrok, Mycoria is very similar.

Nothing can access your device by default. You will have to define services and add "friends" (your other devices) to allow them to access.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Mon, 12 May 2025 07:32:55 +0000

Latency is considered in routing.

Every router announces itself on the network. Routers can optionally publish their IANA IP addresses.

Buckets live on the routers themselves.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Mon, 12 May 2025 07:31:51 +0000

Interesting idea - thanks! Will think about this more.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Mon, 12 May 2025 07:29:29 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. I will re-evaluate.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:37:55 +0000

It's quite fast. Especially if you host a server near you and connect to it.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:37:10 +0000

If nobody knows who you are, you are still anonymous, even if there is an ID.

With private addresses (in the future) this will also be solved, as Mycoria will be able to temporary addresses / IDs.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:35:13 +0000

I understand what you mean. Yes, the technology can do that. I was thinking about the WireGuard as a software in itself.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:31:55 +0000

Thanks for taking the time for this feedback.

This is what I hope to solve with the private addresses: These are not geo-marked and not routable. Eg. they are randomly generated and cannot be attributed to a geographic location (easily).

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:27:15 +0000

Probably - depending on your use case. Mycoria is still more or less MVP though.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:25:55 +0000

Veilid is new to me, will have to read about it first. Thanks the pointer!

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:24:53 +0000

Switch labels are effectively interface IDs on the servers, there is no data to be stored.

Geo encoding simply improves routing to unknown routers, kind of as a baseline structure to the whole network.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:20:26 +0000

Yes, this is correct.

Mycoria has in integrated firewall for this, just in case that information got lost somewhere.

This also means that devices of the company will help other devices of the company to reach their destination, adding to resilience in outages and emergencies.

You can of course build bridges between these networks. This definitely something that is planned.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:18:12 +0000

Mycoria is secure by default: It has an integrated firewall that only allows access from explicitly defined addresses, or, optionally from anyone in the network.

Also, multicast is completely disabled on Mycoria.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 09:37:06 +0000

Nope. I did that with the last network I built: https://safing.io/spn/

Mycoria focuses a more on scalability, but still has some privacy focus.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 09:01:02 +0000

Currently, this is just a fun project for me. I have technical ideas, but I don't have growths plans or the like - and it is nice that it does not have to.

Yes, I would expect the privacy would increase by some degree with more users, but I don't know by how much.

Although I will be using the technology in future projects, so Mycoria will benefit from that.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 08:57:45 +0000

Thanks!

I wasn't really aware segment routing, tbh. However, I do think with where Mycoria is going, the additional control to change things as needed will be required.

I have used VerifPal https://verifpal.com/ for security analysis before, but not yet with Mycoria.

New comment by dhaavi in "Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants"

dhaavi — Thu, 08 May 2025 08:52:22 +0000

I think I have seen it, but that was a while ago.

Will read through it later! Thanks!