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That explanation still seems overly complicated. Iroh isn't a VPN. Iroh just lets apps connect to each other, just like plain old TCP, but without the shackles
by grumbel 3mo ago
That explanation still seems overly complicated. Iroh isn't a VPN. Iroh just lets apps connect to each other, just like plain old TCP, but without the shackles of NAT, DNS and dynamic IP addresses that made that impossible. It's restoring simple P2P connectivity to the Internet.
- worldsayshi 3mo agoAlso, all connections in iroh are end-to-end encrypted.
- HappMacDonald 3mo agoThat.. makes it sound to me a lot like a VPN though
- tecleandor 3mo agoThat would make SSH look like a VPN ;)
- Perepiska 3mo agoAnd bypass all the firewalls if secret key of target machine is known?
- rklaehn 3mo agoYou only need to know the public key of the target endpoint. It will work even on very restrictive firewalls. Even if they outright ban UDP packets, we will fall back to the relay connection which is https/websocket. Note that here is not a single keypair per machine, but per endpoint. You can have multiple endpoints on one machine.