Author here - thanks for the post!<p>A little more background info for my fellow HN people:<p>I've spent that last 8 years building privacy technology at Safing as Co-Founder/CTO. The biggest technological achievement there was undoubtedly the SPN (previously called Port17/Gate17): A privacy network (ie. a layer-5 proxy), fitting in the niche between VPNs and Tor. Impossible to misconfigure, good speeds and way superior privacy to VPNs using onion encryption and decoupled authentication/authorization. Funnily enough, this (decoupled auth) is what was later implemented by Apple Private Relay and Google One VPN.<p>SPN worked great for the most part, but scaling was hard. With the decision to make it a layer-5 proxy for decreased metadata and improved privacy, this meant that also traffic and congestion control had to be re-implemented - no easy feat, and still causing issues.<p>Meanwhile, I have followed and read a lot about cjdns and Yggdrasil over the past few years and was intrigued by their ideas how to do networking.<p>After some interesting talks in November 2023, I was at the point where I just wanted to know how far I would get - with all the experience and knowledge I had up to that point - implementing a scalable layer-3 mesh network, that still allowed for some privacy and full security. I spent most evenings of a couple months building it and was surprised how well it went.<p>Sadly, after a decent MVP and a first friend using it in small scale production, I did not have the time to work on it further.<p>But I am currently starting a new project, where I will make good use of it, so it will see quite some more development in the coming years!<p>So, Mycoria works, at least on small scale for now, but is more or less MVP.<p>Thanks for reading, I hope you have fun poking around and trying it out!<p>I am also happy to answer any questions you have here!