4 ms·
It's similar to them, sure. you could build an ngrok alternative on top of OpenZiti. In fact we might be working on something similar that you might seeing as a
by dovholuknf 4y ago
It's similar to them, sure. you could build an ngrok alternative on top of OpenZiti. In fact we might be working on something similar that you might seeing as a Show HN soon :)
SSH tunnels are similar in ways, yes but they'll suffer from the same "you need an open open port" problem that OpenZiti doesn't suffer from (excluding the overlay nodes, I can get into that if you want)
tor is an anonymization network - utterly different. With OpenZiti the network needs, and must know what identity is connecting. it's really not the same, very different. some similar privacy type of overlap might be out there, but in general that one feels really different.
libp2p is new to me. I have seen that coming up lately but I don't know much about it yet so i can't really comment on that one. sorry
- toomim 4y agoThe similarity with tor is that you can connect to any other computer via its public key, which corresponds to a .onion address. If your computer's public key is xx73u2, then I can access it at https://xx73u2.onion/and/whatever/path/i/want https://xx73u2.onion/and/whatever/path/i/want, and tor handles all the encryption. From this perspective, anonymity comes as a bonus.
- dovholuknf 4y agoOh well see - TIL that was a thing for tor :) Thanks for the education, I always appreciate that!!! So it's similar in that way then, indeed. Including e2ee. I guess I need to brush up on tor's capabilities again. I'm sure there are other overlaps and other differences I'm just not all that aware of.