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| author | Adam Ierymenko <adam.ierymenko@gmail.com> | 2013-07-27 16:20:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Adam Ierymenko <adam.ierymenko@gmail.com> | 2013-07-27 16:20:08 -0400 |
| commit | 7a17f6ca80e3df9e1509dc99d0acdd00f12686e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ab3bb43f16047f79fcb66fb46143703912d63a1 /node/Network.hpp | |
| parent | d35d322890a4a4c3ca85768ba2e16c47662c27c8 (diff) | |
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Add skeleton of certificate-based private network authentication. Also remove some old code.
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| -rw-r--r-- | node/Network.hpp | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/node/Network.hpp b/node/Network.hpp index a95ae869..6263aa9b 100644 --- a/node/Network.hpp +++ b/node/Network.hpp @@ -49,7 +49,20 @@ namespace ZeroTier { class NodeConfig; /** - * Local membership to a network + * A virtual LAN + * + * Networks can be open or closed. + * + * Open networks do not track membership. Anyone is allowed to communicate + * over them. + * + * Closed networks track membership by way of timestamped signatures. When + * the network requests its configuration, one of the fields returned is + * a signature for the identity of the peer on the network. This signature + * includes a timestamp. When a peer communicates with other peers on a + * closed network, it periodically (and pre-emptively) propagates this + * signature to the peers with which it is communicating. Peers reject + * packets with an error if no recent signature is on file. */ class Network : NonCopyable { |