Hyper Hyper Space Sync Engine and adapters
Secure P2P data synchronisation
The way authority is coded into software platforms impacts the health of the communities they serve. The goal of this project is to provide an information sync engine that can provide an application back-end with as little authority delegation as possible, thus enabling applications that are truly user-controlled.
By using a formulation based on monotonicity, Hyper Hyper Space is able to simulate a transactional engine over a cryptographically secure event log. This yields a versatile data model, that is usable in a coordination-free setting and in the presence of Byzantine faults.
This modelling flexibility can be leveraged by using bi-directional adapters, that are able to ingest and export synchronized data into a variety of local storage systems, including relational databases, document stores, and files. Application builders can choose the storage system that better suits their use-case, and rely on an adapter to synchronize its contents. This should lower the barriers of entry for creating p2p applications, and hopefully significantly boosts quality while reducing complexity.
- The project's own website: https://www.hyperhyperspace.org
This project was funded through the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101092990.
