Glossary

fingerprint

the canonical hash value of a token, see Core Concepts

identity

a token that denotes a globally entity which controls the private part of a key pair, see Core Concepts

message intent

a token that denotes a message intent, see Core Concepts and Protocol steps

node

a neuropil peer, see Protocol steps

node token

a token that denotes a node, see Protocol token

signature

a cryptographic signature over the fields of a token, see Protocol token

token

an extensible record type used to encode authentication, authorization, and accounting information, see np_token

DHT

abbreviation for ‘distributed hash table’

msgpack

An embedded library to de-/serialize data across multiple device architectures (see: https://msgpack.org/)