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title: "A decentralized packet network"
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Ouroboros is a peer-to-peer recursive architecture that follows a UNIX
design philosphy, with minimal packet headers. The aim is to provide a
secure and private network experience. Ouroboros provides its own name
resolution, reliability mechanisms, routing algorithms, and congestion
control. It can be overlayed on top of UDP and Ethernet, and IP
applications can be tunneled over Ouroboros.
Ouroboros is [free
software](https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software), written in
C for and its application library provides a simple, unified API for
synchronous and asynchronous Inter-Process Communication (IPC) and
networking.
The best place to start exploring Ouroboros is this introduction
presented at [FOSDEM
2018](https://www.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/ipc/).
This new website is currently under construction and undergoing
frequent updates. The documentation is still sparse, please don't
hesitate to [contact us](/contribute) with any questions you might
have.
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