chr15m
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5 years ago @pwFoo that's correct. The main features Bugout brings which are not already present in WebTorrent and simple-peer:
- Cryptographic pubkey based addressing & discovery of nodes.
- RPC mechanism.
The purpose is to provide a communications channel (like simple-peer) but with 1. a deterministic way of finding peers based on their pubkeys and 2. the ability to publish and execute RPC calls.
It enables communications apps like dirc with few lines of code.
Hi @chr15m,
looked into bugout and https://github.com/feross/simple-peer and try to understand the difference and additional features of bugout.
Bugout works nice without a server (because it uses webtorrent signaling, right?) and is more secure (NaCl???). Bugout transfer text and could be used for chat massages seen in the demos. Simple-peer supports audio / video, it's smaller and isn't dependent on NaCl and webtorrent.
Just to unterstand what the advantages of bugout. Could you please explain? Obviously to me bugout do the signaling / offer / answer part for me and with simple-peer I have to do it myself (for example with a backend server to exchange offer and answer)? But I think it's more than just that bugout is doing?