Gosling

Gosling is a crate which encapsulates connecting to and authenticating with onion-service peers on the Tor Network. The authentication mechanism is based on and improves upon the peer authentication handshake found in Ricochet-Refresh.

Peer-to-peer applications can be built using Gosling with the following features by default:

• end-to-end encrypted
• anonymous
• authenticated
• metadata-resistant
• decentralised
• nat-punching

Through the use of pluggable-transports, applications can also bypass censorship.

The protocol itself is customisable to allow for additional application-specific authorisation.

The problem of peer-discovery is not solved by this crate.

For more details see htps://gosling.technology.