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>> sending a "SYN" packet in both directions at once. Might be a totally dumb question but how does this work? Wouldn’t you already have to have communication
by a_subsystem 2y ago
>> sending a "SYN" packet in both directions at once.
Might be a totally dumb question but how does this work? Wouldn’t you already have to have communication to set a time?
- bscphil 2y agoThat's why protocols like this have what Wormhole calls a "mailbox server", which allows two ends separated by firewalls to do secure key exchange and agree upon a method for punching through directly. See also STUN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN