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diff --git a/content/about/_index.md b/content/about/_index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1489631..0000000 --- a/content/about/_index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: About -date: 2019-06-22 -type: page -draft: false ---- diff --git a/content/about/about.md b/content/about/about.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5a97f85..0000000 --- a/content/about/about.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "About" -draft: false -date: 2019-08-02 ---- - -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](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/edward-snowdens-other-motive-for-leaking/370068/) -on the internet. - -### Licenses - -Ouroboros is [free -software](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). The libraries -are available under the [GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) version -2.1](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html). The -daemons are available under the [GNU Public License (GPL) version -2](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html). The tools -are availabe under the [3-Clause BSD -License](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause). - -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. diff --git a/content/about/contribute.md b/content/about/contribute.md deleted file mode 100644 index 5dbe7ad..0000000 --- a/content/about/contribute.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,80 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Contact -date: 2019-06-22 -draft: false ---- - -General discussion and support ------------------------------- - -For general discussion of Ouroboros, -[subscribe](https://www.freelists.org/list/ouroboros) to our mailing -list: [ouroboros@freelists.org](mailto:ouroboros@freelists.org). - -For day-to-day discussions, join our IRC chat: -[\#ouroboros](irc://irc.freenode.net/ouroboros). - -Contact us on twitter: @ODecentralize - -Contributing code ------------------ - -Contributions should be sent as patches to the mailing list, using your -real name and real e-mail address. - -The git repository contains three branches: - -- master: Contains the most stable version of Ouroboros. -- testing: Contains tested code but may still contain bugs. -- be: Contains untested but compiling code. - -New development is done against the 'be' branch of the git repository. -The testing and master branches take only bugfixes. - -Bug reporting -------------- - -Please report all bugs [here](/bugzilla). When reporting a bug, please -do the following: - -1. Provide a description of the bug. How did you get it and which - version of Ouroboros were you using? Which Operating System are you - on? -2. Provide as much technical information as possible (system logs, - debug traces, \...). -3. If possible, provide a minimal code example to reproduce the bug. -4. If you can provide a bugfix, provide it against the HEAD of the most - stable branch where the bug is present and send the patch to the - mailing list. - -Todo list ---------- - -We are currently looking for - -- Testing and bugfixing. -- Integration testing for the build system beyond the "make check" - unit tests. -- People that are interested in setting up some nodes to establish a - global testing layer. -- Non-blocking flow allocation: Allow specifying a {0, 0} timespec to - return immediately and use fevent() to know when the flow is ready - (or allocation failed). -- Asynchronous IPC over the UNIX sockets. For each command to the - IRMd, we create a UNIX socket, send the request and wait for the - response. This could be changed so that there is only a single UNIX - socket that is used for all messaging. This would simplify parallel - querying of the IPCPs and speed up flow allocation. The far-future - option is to ditch UNIX sockets and bootstrap Ouroboros local IPC - over itself. -- ECDH-AES encryption using libssl and/or libgcrypt. The goal is to - support both libraries so that we have a fallback should major bugs - be discovered in one of them. -- Customized packet serialization to remove the dependency on Google - Protocol Buffers. We like GPB, but it's not perfect. Importing - .proto files may give rise to multiple definitions and we found no - way to solve that. -- Caching for the DHT. -- Cross-compilation to OpenWRT (musl). -- Ported applications! If you want to add native Ouroboros support for - your applications, just let us know and we will help you out! |