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Implementing Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) Protocols #3456

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I am not too familiar with SSB but by the looks of it, it allows for an encrypted transport.

We do something similar with QUIC. There, the multiaddr (/quic) suggests that we set up a QUIC connection on the specified port without multistream-select.

I think SSB could be used to implement a Transport that offers authentication but no multiplexing, at least not in the same way libp2p applications expect it. Those want reliable, ordered streams on top of a transport.

You'd have to implement those on top of MUXRPC which seems a bit silly.

Do SSB nodes allow for something else other than MUXRPC to be used on top of the established connection?

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