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		phildougherty on Feb 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meshbird – Distributed private networking How is this doing discovery of other nodes? Says it is fully decentralized but just doing a `meshbird new` to get a key and then running `MESHBIRD_KEY="key" meshbird join` doesn't explain the discovery mechanism to me. Haven't dug into it much though.

miovoid on Feb 14, 2017 | [–]

We are using DHT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table.

Each node announce some key in DHT network, that represents hash of shared secret key.

justinsaccount on Feb 13, 2017 | [–]

  > Technologies used
  >     DHT

phildougherty on Feb 13, 2017 | [–]

Thanks!

solidsnack9000 on Feb 14, 2017 | | [–]

It sounds like you figured it out from that...but I'm having trouble. Does it do discovery the first time you attempt to connect or something?

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