Cyphernet
Cyphernet stack consists of the following layers:
Meshnet: the base physical connectivity layer
Internet: routing and transport between connected meshnets / physical networks
Mixnet: a layer on top of internet which hides actual routing information and makes it indistinguishable from the background activity and noise
Encryption: layer which guarantees that all the layers below doesn't have access to the data delivered in the messages
Authentication: an optional layer guaranteeing that the parties connected through the layers below can recognize each other and maintain long-term relationships based on reputation, which may persists longer than a single connection
Application
Internet consists of IP protocol, related routing protocols and transport-level protocols, like TCP, UDP, QUICK, and others.
Mixnet can be either a simple proxy or virtual private network protocols, like SOCKS5 and IPsec, or protocols which does the actual mixnet, like Tor, I2P and Nym.
Encryption can be a PKI-based, which can't be seen as a part of cyphernet, or WoT-based. The specific existing technologies for the encryption include SSL, TLS, SSH and recent Noise protocol suite, however all of them are both authentication and encryption protocols, not separating layer 4 and 5. As a result the require an identity infrastructure, and in the most of cases it is PKI (as with SSL and TLS), or an absence of infrastructure, like in SSH and Noise protocols.
Recent activity has been focused on separating authentication from the encryption. The pioneer in this sphere is a new Bitcoin P2P protocol defined in BIP___. In Cyphernet Initiative we try to define a new applciation-agnostic authentification protocol based on WoT-like identities (codenamed Eidolon), clearly distinguished from the encryption protocol layer - which, in turn, doesn't provide a required authentification - codenamed Black Snow.
Black Snow (BSNC)
"You know nothing, John Snow"
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