Self-certifying identity

A networking scheme where a node's cryptographic public key IS its dialable address, so peers mutually authenticate connections without any certificate authority.

grounded in: HN NOTABLE 'Mesh LLM: Runs distributed AI inference across peers over the iroh networking layer' — iroh dials peers by public-key NodeId (self-certifying), distinct from addressing data (content-addre

Connected concepts

P2P overlay network, Content-addressed networking, NAT Traversal / Hole Punching, Decentralized mesh inference