Cypheraddr: network addresses supporting SOCKS5, Tor, I2P, Nym and P2P pubkeys

Rust library providing a set of address data types with minimal dependencies which allow simple use of.

• Tor, Nym, I2P and other mix networks and SOCKS proxies;
• P2P addresses with node public keys.

The crate may be used in a way that prevents using DNS names (outside mixnet scope).

The library is a part of rust cyphernet suite.

Manifest

Name: cypheraddr
Type: Library
Kind: Free software
License: Apache-2.0
Language: Rust
Compiler: 1.65
Author: Maxim Orlovsky
Maintained: Cyphernet DAO, Switzerland
Maintainers:
  Maxim Orlovsky:
    GitHub: @dr-orlovsky
    GPG: EAE730CEC0C663763F028A5860094BAF18A26EC9
    SSH: BoSGFzbyOKC7Jm28MJElFboGepihCpHop60nS8OoG/A
    EMail: dr@orlovsky.ch
  Alexis Sellier:
    GitHub: @cloudhead
    SSH: iTDjRHSIaoL8dpHbQ0mv+y0IQqPufGl2hQwk4TbXFlw

Overview

Network addresses provided by the library include the following types:

• InetHost - IP addr or DNS name
• HostName - IP, DNS, Tor, I2P, Nym host name (no port or proxy information)
• NetAddr - any type of host name + port information
• PartialAddr - any type of host name + optional port, which defaults to generic const if not provided
• PeerAddr - any of the above addresses + node public key for authentication
• ProxiedHost - host name + proxy (there are IP/DNS w/o proxy and with proxy)
• ProxiedAddr - any of the above addresses + proxy (thus IP/DNS is always proxied)

The library tries to minimize number of dependencies. Most of its functionality is available via non-default features, like:

• mixnets: supports for mixnet network addresses, including tor, nym, i2p (may require additional crypto libraries for parsing public keys);

• serde: encoding for addresses types;

• dns: enable use of DNS names alongside IP addresses and mixnet names.

Documentation

API reference documentation for the library can be accessed at https://docs.rs/cypheraddr/.

Licensing

The libraries are distributed on the terms of Apache 2.0 opensource license. See LICENCE file for the license details.