specs/secio

SECIO 1.0.0

A stream security transport for libp2p. Streams wrapped by SECIO use secure sessions to encrypt all traffic.

Authors

• Juan Benet (October, 2015)

Editors

• Cole Brown
• Lars Gierth

Implementations

• js-libp2p-secio
• go-secio

Table of Contents

• Algorithm Support

Algorithm Support

SECIO allows participating peers to support a subset of the following algorithms.

Exhchanges

• P-256
• P-384
• P-521

Ciphers

• AES-256
• AES-128
• Blowfish

Hashes

• SHA-256
• SHA-512

Data Structures

The SECIO wire protocol features two message types defined in the protobuf description language. These two messages, Propose and Exchange are the only serialized types required to implement SECIO.

Protocol

Proposal Generation