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alistproducer2 on July 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Snow – A layer 3 virtual network that uses public ...

maybe im missing something, but what is the point of using the public keys if they need to be mapped to ip? dont u still need dns servers to resolve the ip addresses?

purp on July 7, 2015 | [–]

You get full encryption end to end, transparent to any app or program on the box, with next to zero config.

See http://trustiosity.com/snow/how-it-works.html

lucb1e on July 7, 2015 | [–]

It uses DHT instead of DNS, but basically yes. The point, however, at least in my opinion, is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844987

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