Replying to Avatar Leo Wandersleb

I watched the video but don't quite understand what's going on.

So you ended up with your browser being configured to use a proxy that gave it DNS resolution for .hyper URLs? How are these routed? The holepunch people are loud about it being P2P with no middle man but how do packages actually travel from the client to the server and back? I see you are using no ssl. Is your proxy encrypting with the .hyper URL's public key or something?
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hzrd149 1y ago

In short, I don't know.

I only have a vague idea of how hypercore works. I've looked at some of code but I don't know enough about IP and networking to fully understand it

It does seem to use encryption when connecting to another hypercore node and it does seem to be able to make a direct P2P connection to another node ( at least a lot more than WebRTC can )

But I doubt this as private as Tor or I2P since they seem to be using NAT and holepunching to connect the machines. which probably exposes your IP address to other the peer

I simply built this on top of the `holesail` and `hyperdht` packages that seem to work really well from my testing 😀

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