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[Q] How do peers in an anonymous P2P network find each other and communicate? 12-19-2016, 01:56 AM
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I was wondering how peers on anonymous networks such as Freenet find each other.
I heard that when Bitcoin first started out, the peers found each other via IRC, but how would this work in an anonymous network, as the peers can't share their IP addresses.
How would this work in a decentralized scenario?
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Ten Years of Service
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RE: [Q] How do peers in an anonymous P2P network find each other and communicate? 12-19-2016, 02:00 AM
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Share your key with people on msging boards or private messages.
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Ten Years of Service
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RE: [Q] How do peers in an anonymous P2P network find each other and communicate? 12-19-2016, 06:30 AM
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They both connect through a a server then to the chat server so their IP looks to be from the host server.
If that makes sense. Like a tunnel server to the main server. set it up so the tunnel server does not log anything.
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RE: [Q] How do peers in an anonymous P2P network find each other and communicate? 12-19-2016, 07:11 AM
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There are nodes that work as a gateway betwen the computers. In a decentralized network you have lots of nodes that are connected with one another via something simalar to VPN, the VPN makes it so that all the nodes can talk to each other.
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