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amitu | 9 months ago

Kulfi is the official name of the project, and the name of the "peer to peer internet" "id52/identity based internet", so kulfi net.

Kulfi App is going to be a browser like Google Chrome, available on various app stores, and it will speak both http over tcp and http over kulfi. Kulfi app acts like client (but is also a server, so on your iPhone tomorrow you can install Kulfi, which will let you access any http over kulfi site, and also will run a web server which is exposed over kulfi net for others to access, so my Android phone's Kulfi browser can connect with the your iPhones Kulfi's web server, with no intermediary [1]).

malai is ready now, and it is a Swiss army knife toolkit for working with kulfi net. Currently malai can expose a HTTP or TCP service over kulfi net.

Malai also has a "http bridge" feature, which bridges any malai exposed http over kulfi service with the http over tcp, so people can use regular browsers to access malai exposed HTTP services.

[1]: we are using https://www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-dns, so their caveats apply.

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lxgr|9 months ago

What's id52?

I feel like I'm missing a lot of context to understand what's being shared here.

amitu|9 months ago

We are built on top of https://www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-dns, and iroh uses the public key as the node identifier. Unfortunately the iroh id is 64 char long, which can not be used in subdomains, subdomains have a char limit of 63, so we are using dnssec base32[1], which comes to 52 chars, and we use that 52 char string as the primary identifier (instead of IP:port, which is used the "old school net" (tongue firmly in cheek), and we call it id52.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5155/