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iroh
Rust2022–2026
n0-computer / iroh

iroh

IP addresses break, dial keys instead. A library that adds QUIC + NAT Traversal to your apps.

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31Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
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What it is

IP addresses break, dial keys instead. A library that adds QUIC + NAT Traversal to your apps.

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:45:45 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year31 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-09-06 18:02:23 UTC to 2026-08-26 19:00:40 UTC.

0510152022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 14 mentions; 2 submissions, 12 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC14212
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606

What Hacker News says

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There are a number (or just one? Mullvad) of commercial VPN providers that provide an optional PQC layer, and that fact is referenced on this project's page. There is also VPN software that incorporates PQC (also referenced): <https://rosenpass.eu> What this project attempts to do is to establish a transparent PQC stream between client and server. I'm not sure I like the way they are doing this, with a lot of magic (PQConnect inserts itself into the network stack to inspect incoming DNS responses) and with Python of all things.[1][2][3] I think the best way to do this is to graft it on top of QUIC and not mess with linux network plumbing. Perhaps integrate it with something like <https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh> [1] <https://www.pqconnect.net/pqconnect-20241206.pdf> [2] <https://www.pqconnect.net/20241227.pdf> [3] <https://github.com/
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In PQConnect: Automated Post-Quantum End-to-End Tunnels
Totally biased founder here, but I work on https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh, a thing that started off as an IPFS implementation in rust, but we broke out & ended up doing our own thing. We're not at the point where the iroh implements "the full IPFS experience" (some parts border on impossible to do while keeping a decentralized promise), but we're getting closer to the "p2p website hosting" use case each week.
In I moved my blog from IPFS to a server
if you are looking for something similar to ipfs but a bit more minimalistic and performance oriented, check out iroh https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh . It is a set of open source libraries for peer to peer networking and content-addressed storage. It is written in rust, but we have bindings to many languages. One part of iroh is a work in progress implementation of the willow spec. The lower layers include a networking library similar to libp2p and a library for content-addressed storage and replication based on blake3 verified streaming. Most iroh developers have been active in the ipfs community for many years and have shared similar frustrations... See this talk from me in 2019 :-) https://youtu.be/Qzu0xtCT-R0?t=169
In Willow Protocol

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