The Fenrir Project

Transport, encryption, authentication protocol

This project is maintained by Luca Fulchir

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Fenrir's Blog

Welcome to the blog tracking the Fenrir project

This blog will be used to track and -why not- discuss all the choices, design features and advancements of the project, so you might find both technical posts and random thoughts.

Currently working on:

From Section Description
2021-01+ D4 New Object storage
2020-12 Studying Rust & nix New base for server and future projects
2018-10 - 2020-11 Nothing :( too much work, no time for opensource

Signal vs Federation

Federation

Recently the guys at Signal have published a blog post about their ideas on federation.

Our ideas differ, so let’s analyze the problem.

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Multicast

Multicast

I finally had some time to better think about multicast transmission and better analyze the problem. And I think I have a solution.

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Thesis

Thesis

I finally finished my master thesis, and the result can be found here.

Feel free to look at it to better understand the Fenrir protocol.

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Got Speed?

bandwidth delay RTT speed satellite

Every protocol has a limit on how quickly it can deliver things.

So how does Fenrir compare to the classical TCP?

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Anonymous Login

federation authentication anonymity

Obviously we support anonymous connection. But that’s not the same as an anonymous login.

By “Anonymous login” we mean being able to login to a 3rd party website without revealing our username.

With Fenrir, that’s pretty simple.

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libRaptorQ

RaptorQ

It took me a lot more than expected, but finally I have a working implementation of the RaptorQ algorithm (RFC630)

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Slow Development

progress_report RaptorQ

Things have been slow in the last two months.

What’s going on? A lot.

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DNSSEC

DNSSEC DNS handshake

What happens before the handshake? How do we get the information needed to have a secure connection with the right server?

Fenrir does not use the common CA authorities, so where do we get the trust in this system?

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Federated Authentication

federation authentication authorization lattice

Today we are going to have an in-depth look at the algorithm behind the federation and how the tokens, the lattices are used.

The algorithm per-se is extremely easy, so we will look at what information we use and how. There’s no cryptography involved here :)

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Architecture

federation Kerberos OAuth authorization lattice

Everybody is familiar with the usual client-server architecture, and you might have figured out the “authentication server”-“service”-“client” model in Kerberos and OAuth.

Fenrir further splits the roles, simplifying the work each application has to do and increasing the overall security.

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