Librecast Overlay Multicast
Privacy-preserving, energy efficient data replication and verification
The original design goals of the Internet do not match today's privacy and security needs, and this is evident in the technologies in use today.
The Librecast project contributes to decentralizing the Internet by enabling multicast. Multicast is an important network capability for a secure, decentralized and private by default Next Generation Internet. Multicast is networking with consent. Unfortunately, today's infrastructure does not fully support end to end multicast. In order to reap the benefits of multicast in the applications we build now, we need a transitional mechanism which enables overlay multicast via peer to peer tunnels so that multicast applications - using the Librecast libraries - can work everywhere, regardless of underlying network support.
The Librecast project is building the transitional protocols and software required to extend the reach of multicast and enable easy deployment by software developers, to make end to end encrypted multicast a reality.
- The project's own website: https://librecast.net
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.
