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An experiment in scalable routing as an encrypted IPv6 overlay network

15 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 1 story, 14 comments · first 2019-11-01 · latest 2026-09-01

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  1. …protocols/structure, Yggdrasil[1][2], for example. [1] https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ [2] https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go
  2. I confused it with this for a min, which I have played with: https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go
    comment by lazyfanatic42 · 2025-10-07 · in Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?
  3. …your question, but the go implementation also runs on OpenWRT, in case you want to try it out. [1] https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go
    comment by cookiengineer · 2025-06-22 · in Yggdrasil Network
  4. - https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go
  5. …accidentally) and cause my traffic to route over their node(s) and/or the public mesh. Thanks! [1] https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go/pull/1038
    comment by someplaceguy · 2023-06-27 · in Tinc, a GPLv2 mesh routing VPN
  6. …meshes and not worry that they will end up accidentally peered to the public network. [1]: https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go/discussion...
    comment by genpfault · 2023-06-27 · in Tinc, a GPLv2 mesh routing VPN
  7. …solutions than tailscale. Have a look at full mesh VPNs like: https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc https://github.com/costela/wesher These build actual mesh…
    comment by 5e92cb50239222b · 2022-12-14 · in Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets
  8. …at the layer of bypassing BGP. Many are just acting as an overlay; which works to an extent. https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go It's probably begging for a different model of the "internet" and where data lives. My…
    comment by pyinstallwoes · 2022-10-28 · in The Iran Firewall: A preliminary report
  9. …file has an AllowedPublicKeys section if you want to specify who can route through your node. https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go
    comment by depingus · 2022-05-04 · in Tailscale raises $100M
  10. https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go/issues/779...
    comment by boogerlad · 2022-02-01 · in Yggdrasil P2P mesh E2EE IPv6 network
  11. https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go/blob/983df... I've never seen anyone need to check the top byte of a nonce before. This looks very odd to me.
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    Yggdrasil – Early-stage implementation of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network
    story by dragonsh · 2021-06-21 · 102 comments
  13. There is an overview in the whitepaper: https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go/blob/maste... It fits the "private VPN" use-case quite well in my experience. You can connect to the wider network over the Internet, or just set…
  14. If you haven't already, you should give Yggdrasil ( https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go/blob/maste... ) a read. > IP addresses are derived from cryptographic keys, to reduce the need for public key infrastructure
    comment by flas9sd · 2019-12-10 · in WireGuard is in net-next
  15. Yggdrasil[1] is a similar project that seems to be a bit more active, if you're interested. [1] https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go
    comment by tdjsnelling · 2019-11-01 · in Lack of cdnjs activity