That is a remarkably content-free website. I tried (I think) all of the obvious pages, but still don't know in any detail, how do they handle routing differently from the normal internet.

Can anyone explain? They complain that routing on the internet is (somewhat) hierarchical to scale, but then don't explain their solution to the same problem(s).

The simplified choice has always been distance-vector, or link state. Are they a better attempt at one of these? Some new idea?

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MarsIronPI 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The novelty is that routing is based on cryptographic identity. Yggdrasil's IPv6 addresses are actually truncated representations of public keys. You configure the Yggdrasil software with a list of peers which it connects to over normal internet, but then when you route a Yggdrasil address your device talks to all its peers, who talk to their peers and so on until they find your destination. As I understand it, they optimize it by caching the routing information and using bloom filters to find the appropriate peer.

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mrsssnake 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Picture this:

You have three devices at home, A, B and C. Only device A have Internet connection and can connect to public Yggdrasil node. B can connect only to A and C. C can connect only to B. Have Yggdrasil installed on all of them (and tell Yggdrasil about the peers), all devices would have access to full Yggdrasil network.

	▲	lokar 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		And? How is that novel? I read the site as saying the have a new, and better solution to how to do internet scale routing (in an overlay network, but that did not seem like a critical aspect)