NKN Tunnel

Tunnel any TCP applications through NKN client or Tuna. A few advantages:

• Network agnostic: Neither sender nor receiver needs to have public IP address or port forwarding. NKN tunnel only establish outbound (websocket) connections, so Internet access is all they need on both side.

• Top level security: All data are end to end authenticated and encrypted. No one else in the world except sender and receiver can see or modify the content of the data. The same public key is used for both routing and encryption, eliminating the possibility of man in the middle attack.

• Decent performance: By aggregating multiple overlay paths concurrently, one can get ~100ms end to end latency and 10+mbps end to end throughput between international devices using the default NKN client mode, or much lower latency and higher throughput using Tuna mode.

• Everything is open source and decentralized. The default NKN client mode is free (If you are curious, node relay traffic for clients for free to earn mining rewards in NKN blockchain), while Tuna mode requires listener to pay NKN token directly to Tuna service providers.

A diagram of the default NKN client mode:

                                 A - ... - X
                               /             \
Alice <--> TCP <--> NKN client - B - ... - Y - NKN client <--> TCP <--> Bob
                               \             /
                                 C - ... - Z

A diagram of the Tuna mode:

                                      A
                                    /   \
Alice <--> TCP <--> NKN Tuna client - B - NKN Tuna client <--> TCP <--> Bob
                                    \   /
                                      C

Build

go build -o nkn-tunnel bin/main.go

Basic Usage

"Server" side:

./nkn-tunnel -to 127.0.0.1:8080 -s <seed>

and you will see an output like Listening at xxx where xxx is the server listening address.

"Client" side:

./nkn-tunnel -from 127.0.0.1:8081 -to <server-listening-address>

Now any TCP connection to client port 8081 will be forwarded to server port 8080.

Tuna Mode

Add -tuna on both side of the tunnel to use Tuna mode, which has much better performance but requires listener to pay NKN token directly to Tuna service providers.

Contributing

Can I submit a bug, suggestion or feature request?

Yes. Please open an issue for that.

Can I contribute patches?

Yes, we appreciate your help! To make contributions, please fork the repo, push your changes to the forked repo with signed-off commits, and open a pull request here.

Please sign off your commit. This means adding a line "Signed-off-by: Name " at the end of each commit, indicating that you wrote the code and have the right to pass it on as an open source patch. This can be done automatically by adding -s when committing:

git commit -s

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