Hello there, I was reading about peer-to-peer systems and a question was raised in my mind:
Has there been any investigation into whether Jami could run over GNUnet rather than OpenDHT? As far as I can tell (and correct me if I am wrong), GNUnet and OpenDHT are entirely separate DHT systems but are both GNU projects; I imagine unifying GNU developers’ efforts would be beneficial.
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I don’t understand your question, GNUnet is not just an DHT implementation and have a VPN subsystem, I guess it can tunnel Jami traffic easily.
Yes, I was referring to the DHT component of GNUnet. (“R5N”, is it called?)
Rewording my question: Has anyone compared the functionality of Jami vs. Jami-but-with-OpenDHT-replaced-with-an-implementation-of-GNUnet’s-R5N? And if so, how do they compare?
I’ve been curious about this too. From what I understand, both Jami and GNUnet aim for decentralized, privacy-focused communication, but they seem to take pretty different technical approaches. I’m not super deep into the networking side, but it would be great to know whether the Jami devs have ever experimented with GNUnet as a transport layer, or if there are blockers that make it unrealistic. If anyone has insight or past discussions about this, I’d appreciate it.