Signal Network PoC

Functionality §

1. Establish direct connection to remote peer using their public key as identifier.

Usability §

1. Developers can implement their own application-level discovery method.
2. Only remote peer’s public key is needed to initiate connection.
3. Hook is provided for developer to filter inbound connection requests.

Reliability §

1. End-to-end reliability is implemented for the signaling conversation.
2. No provided reliability for established connections, left to the developer (e.g. keep alive).

Supportability §

1. Developers can use this protocol in web application, imported from npmjs.com.
2. Developers can use this protocol to initiate WebRTC connections.
3. Only 1:1 direct connections are supported.

+ (Privacy, Anonymity, Deployments) §

1. Network observers cannot retrieve node connection details; forward secrecy is not included.
2. STUN and TURN servers may be required for WebRTC usage.