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I apologize, wasn't clear from the documentation: router's IPv6-like address is a fingerprint of the public key, but does it also encode geo-prefix and distance
by leobuskin 1y ago
I apologize, wasn't clear from the documentation: router's IPv6-like address is a fingerprint of the public key, but does it also encode geo-prefix and distance (I mean, it's hypothetically doable, I'm curious what's the approach if it is)? or the router's address has no metadata encoded, and only end-user addresses are encoded this way?
- dhaavi 1y agoMycoria brute forces a public key/IP pair until it matches the desired geo-prefix.
- dfc 1y agoI am a little confused how the geo encoded addresses and private addresses work. It seems like the network will be overwhelmed with keeping track of switch labels?
- dhaavi 1y agoSwitch 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.