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Comment by api

4 years ago

The crypto part of ZeroTier is getting some love soon but we are taking our time to get it right and get peer review. Implementing ideas from WireGuard and Signal.

Also the pricing is for our controller SaaS. If you want to self host controllers you can for free. There is a free community developed control panel somewhere.

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password4321  4 years ago

Managing expectations re:v2 is not going well for me. I wasn't really aware WireGuard-ish crypto improvements were happening (hire the personalities™ freelance ASAP or at least for review), and timeline is basically a punchline at this point... I recommend just owning both (edit: start today!) as 'when it's finished' on the front page if you want to appeal to techs.

I updated re:free, thanks.

Their appear to be two (Node.js/GPL3) control panels: https://github.com/key-networks/ztncui and https://github.com/dec0dOS/zero-ui

  • api  4 years ago

    Managing expectations re:v2 has been a total failure on our part. We put far too many things in one basket. But the work is still happening.

    Learning moment for us: don't give timelines and don't reveal too much. Just say "when it's finished." Only Elon Musk can use Elon Time(tm). :)

    Edit: we also promised some things that are just brutally hard, like fully decentralizing the root backplane via full data set replication. We are still working on that but it proved tougher than we originally thought, especially in light of scaling needs and security concerns. Some interesting technology in development but still in private repos.

    Our competition just builds SaaS with a single controller run by a single entity. That's easy. We make it hard on ourselves by trying to keep going on the decentralization and control your own security boundary mission. Part of why everything is getting centralized into silos is that that's just so easy to engineer.