ABOUT
About
The Ouroboros project is a decentralized packet network implementation started by Sander Vrijders and Dimitri Staessens. It stems from our deep interest in computer networks, trying to solve some long standing problems in IP networks such as achieving clean fragmentation, routing scalability, efficient congestion control and simple multicast. Instead of trying to tackle these issues in isolation, we subscribe to the view that the entire TCP/IP design is fundamentally broken, and a holistic approach is needed to build efficient packet networks.
In addition, a lot of the design is inspired by Edward Snowdens revelations and his call to drastically improve end-user security and privacy on the internet.
Licenses
Ouroboros is free software. The libraries are available under the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) version 2.1. The daemons are available under the GNU Public License (GPL) version 2. The tools are availabe under the 3-Clause BSD License.
Ouroboros logos © Dimitri Staessens. All Rights Reserved.
Disclaimer
Ouroboros is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
At present, Ouroboros should be considered an advanced research prototype.