About

This is a golang implementation of the Kademlia DHT protocol. It forms a Peer-to-Peer overlay network to support building fully decentralized features for your next-gen data intensive applications.

This library is currently used in my recent projects, I found it to be pretty stable, but its APIs have not been finalized yet.

Features

• clean kademlia implementation, nothing to do with bittorrent's Mainline DHT
• pure Golang, no cgo
• a simple in-memory key-value store with TTL support

Being able to defend sybil attacks is not planned, users need to ensure only participants running trusted code are allowed to join the DHT.

How to Use

See struct DHT's godoc for details, tests in dht_test.go demonstrate how to use the library.

The Experiment

This library is a little bit special in the sense that other than the selected LLM (OpenAI GPT-4o) no other reference (paper, search engine, online discussion forum or blog articles etc.) is ever consulted during the development. This experiment helped to understand how much a SOTA LLM can assist during development. My overall experience strongly indicates that SOTA LLMs like OpenAI GPT-4o is already capable of correctly presenting and explaining the full details of a public and complex network protocol like Kadelmia for the purposes of implementing the concerned protocol.

License

This library follows a dual licensing model -

• it is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license if you have written evidence showing that you are a licensee of github.com/lni/pothos
• otherwise, it is licensed under the GPL-2 license