Peer Id generator and operator, designed with circular Id namespaces in mind, used in
webrtc-explorer. Currently only supports 48 bits, but I'm happy to make accept PR that make it Id size agnostic.
David Dias MSc in Peer-to-Peer Networks by Technical University of Lisbon
This work was developed by David Dias with supervision by Luís Veiga, all in INESC-ID Lisboa (Distributed Systems Group), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, with the support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.
More info on the team's work at:
If you use this project, please acknowledge it in your work by referencing the following document:
David Dias and Luís Veiga. browserCloud.js A federated community cloud served by a P2P overlay network on top of the web platform. INESC-ID Tec. Rep. 14/2015, Apr. 2015
- Uses sha1 to guarantee that ID's are generated with an uniform distribution
- Runs in Node.js and in the browser
- Respects the natural circular ID namespace DHT are known to use (meaning that there is no ID higher than 48 bits)
var Id = require('dht-id');
var idA = new Id(); // generates a new random Id with 48 bits length
var idB = new Id(<value to generate the Id from>); // generates an Id based on the value, same value always generates same Id
idA.toHex(); // returns the hex value of the Id in a string
idA.toDec(); // returns the dec value of the Id in a number
idA.next(); // basically this id + 1, useful to send to Sucessor
Id.hash(content); // convinient way to find the Id of a content and guarantee that it has our ideal id length