It is not easy to get IPv6 on every device, that is only a dream at the moment but Holesail is real and it works. It solves the issue of connectivity + firewalls.
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Agreed, I am discussing an ideology, not current reality.
Even then that will posses similar issues to static IPv4 addresses we have at the moment.
People irresponsibly using it to expose private and important stuff online without knowledge that malicious third parties can see it.
P.s: I did some good research on this a while ago and have not posted about that yet, I will cover this ISSUE in depth in a separate post.
Yes, as I said security is a separate, but equally important consideration, but we do have better options available today than we used to and more hardware and software compute power to deal with it.
I was an IP architect in a former life 1989 - 2002, so much more knowledgable about this than security, but I have some fundamental understanding of security and the current state of the technology and the opportunities available within this arena.
I will steer away from discussing security in detail as I have less knowledge of this area.
Makes sense. Also, goal of holesail is to be easy to connect and to be secure by design with no extra configs, so that even the simplest user can use it without fearing that someone might "hack" them, or someone is watching the camera.
The problem is and always has been, “what do we have the resources to implement and who is going to implement it?” Maybe there are easier solutions and stuff already built, but I don’t know them, and I’m going to be putting a lot of my personal resources to solving this problem and nostr:npub1h5t3asu90f2x48rxtcqkjvwhza7m6kngs7vjyanx8xqyswc6es2s4645z5 has been doing the same to build Holesail on top of the same protocol stack that I’ve been working with. And despite years of claims of a problem being “solved” by tons of other software supposedly, I still have these problems, in a big way actually.
So it’s not really about what’s best, it’s about what gets done first. Maybe someone else is doing the same thing and they will finish first, but we are very, very close to this just being extremely easy and fast to both implement & connect to. With no setup, networking issues, and with reliable security from the start. I would be happy to hear that someone else has solved these better, but for now we are just pushing ahead to what we want to build for ourselves.
… and if nobody takes the bounty I’ll just redirect my devs on it, but for anyone capable, you are passing up a good amount of sats.
Understood and agreed.