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Overview

Introduction​

Mycelium is an end-2-end encrypted IPv6 overlay network written in Rust where each node that joins the overlay network will receive an overlay network IP in the 400::/7 range.

The overlay network uses some of the core principles of the Babel routing protocol.

Features​

  • Mycelium, is locality aware, it will look for the shortest path between nodes
  • All traffic between the nodes is end-2-end encrypted
  • Traffic can be routed over nodes of friends, location aware
  • If a physical link goes down Mycelium will automatically reroute your traffic
  • The IP address is IPV6 and linked to private key
  • A simple reliable messagebus is implemented on top of Mycelium
  • Mycelium has multiple ways how to communicate quic, tcp, ... and we are working on holepunching for Quick which means P2P traffic without middlemen for NATted networks e.g. most homes
  • Scalability is very important for us, we tried many overlay networks before and got stuck on all of them, we are trying to design a network which scales to a planetary level
  • You can run mycelium without TUN and only use it as reliable message bus.

Testing​

We are looking for lots of testers to push the system. Visit the Mycelium repository to contribute.