"The Internals of Veilid, a New Decentralized..." Christien 'DilDog' Rioux, Katelyn 'Medus4' Bowden

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The Internals of Veilid, a New Decentralized Application Framework
Christien 'DilDog' Rioux, Cult Of The Dead Cow, He/Him
Katelyn 'Medus4' Bowden, Cult Of The Dead Cow, She/Her
Demo, Tool
45 Minutes

Veilid is an open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first networked application framework, with a flagship secure messaging application named VeilidChat. Veilid is conceptually similar to IPFS + Tor, but faster and designed from the ground-up to provide all services over a privately routed network. The network also enables development of distributed applications without a 'blockchain' or a 'transactional layer' at their base. Veilid can be included as part of user-facing applications or run as a standalone server for power users who wish to help build the network.

Architecturally, it is written in Rust, uses strong encryption, and nodes can run on Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, iOS, and in-browser WASM. Low-level protocols over UDP, raw TCP, Websockets and Secure Websockets. Nodes are optimized for low latency, high node churn, and are particularly capable of dealing with low level network changes, such as switching from cellular to wifi networks mid-communication.

This talk will focus on the internals of Veilid:
* How it works as a protocol
* How it leverages strong cryptography to provide private communications
* How it provides decentralized storage and cryptographically sound data structures
* How applications are written to leverage the Veilid Network

We will demonstrate Veilid Server, and VeilidChat, the application.

Christien 'DilDog' Rioux is a member of The Cult Of The Dead Cow, the author of remote-access utility Back Orifice 2000, and a thorn in Microsoft's side for over a decade. DilDog is the creator of StuntBanana, a caller-id spoofing system, and is proprietor of the hacker-fashion line HACK.XXX. He is also Co-Founder and former Chief Scientist of Veracode, on the founding team of @stake, as well as a member of L0pht Heavy Industries. DilDog is a staunch believer that if you want to change the present you need to build the future, and is very sorry for having helped create "InfoSec" from hacking, and would like to undo the damage.
@dildog

Katelyn Bowden is a hacker, activist, and CULT OF THE DEAD cow member, who embraces the human side of hacking and tech. She also creates strange furby art and has over 60 dead things on display in her house. @medus4_cdc


REFERENCES:
Tor Project: www.torproject.org
IPFS: https://ipfs.tech/

[SupremeQuartz]

When can we expect a whitepaper? Great work guys... exciting!

[number6]

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[c0debabe]

Hi, member of the Veilid team here. It's https://ipfs.tech -- not the dot com address originally listed on the forum.

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[mav]

warming up my antique but rarely used forum account just to tell y'all I'm proud of you all and cannot wait to see what you've built.

[Rexflex]

Hi there, i wonder what the similarities and differences are in comparison to the echo protocol of the Spo-On application? Probably you can referr in your presentation some facts and architectural things.
thanks.