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> Every Mycoria Router has an ID. For example: > fd1f:2cf7:903:b50b:e4cb:5c4c:270e:360c > This does not merely look like an IPv6 address, it is one. But it's
by sebstefan 1y ago
> Every Mycoria Router has an ID. For example:
> fd1f:2cf7:903:b50b:e4cb:5c4c:270e:360c
> This does not merely look like an IPv6 address, it is one. But it's also more than that: These addresses are generated by first creating a public/private key pair and then hashing the public key. This means, this IPv6 address is also the fingerprint of the public key of the router
> This way you can distribute both the Mycoria address of a router and its public key with a single data point: An IPv6 address.
What?
* Then how does a computer figure out how to ping that?
* You say it's distributing both the address and the public key with a single data point, but you're hashing it. So, you can restore the public key from the IP if you already know the public key, does everyone store every public key that's currently in use? Are there central stores somewhere that are eventually consistent?