specs/5-datastructures.md

5 Datastructures

The network protocol deals with these datastructures:

• a PrivateKey, the private key of a node.
• a PublicKey, the public key of a node.
• a PeerID, a hash of a node's public key.
• a Node[1], has a PeerID, and open connections to other Nodes.
• a Connection, a point-to-point link between two Nodes (muxes 1 or more streams)
• a Stream, a duplex message channel.

[1] currently called PeerHost in go-ipfs.