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## general design ## general design
* Make address.log that contains (uuid, transport, address, Maybe authtoken) * There is a generic P2P protocol, which should be usable with any P2P
* The authtoken is an additional guard, to protect against transports system that can send messages between peers.
where the address might be able to be guessed, or observed by the rest of * A p2p remote has an url like tor-annex::fijdksajdksjfkj, which connects
the network. to a specific peer. The peer's address may be kept private, but
* Some addresses can be used with only the provided authtoken the design allows the address to be public without giving access to
from the address.log. Remotes can be auto-enabled for these. the peer.
* Other addresses have Nothing povided for the authtoken, and one * An authtoken also needs to be presented when connecting with a peer.
has to instead be provided during manual enabling of the remote. This is stored in local creds storage and must be kept private.
* The remotedaemon runs, and/or communicates with the program implementing * The remotedaemon runs, and/or communicates with the program implementing
the network transport. For example for tor, the remotedaemon runs the P2P network. For example for tor, the remotedaemon runs the
the hidden service, and also connects to the tor hidden services of hidden service.
other nodes.
* The remotedaemon handles both sides of git push over the transport. * The remotedaemon handles both sides of git push over the transport.
* The remotedaemon may also support sending objects over the transport, * The remotedaemon may also support sending objects over the transport,
depending on the transport. depending on the transport.