The GUI exposed three networking modes: public server, manual, and standalone. In practice EasyTier does not have a server/client role distinction here. Those options only mapped to different peer bootstrap shapes, which made the product model misleading and pushed users toward a non-existent "public server" concept.
This change rewrites the shared configuration UX around initial nodes. Users now add or remove one or more initial node URLs directly, and the UI explains that EasyTier networking works like plugging in a cable: once a node connects to one or more existing nodes, it can join the mesh. Initial nodes may be self-hosted or shared by others.
To preserve compatibility, the frontend keeps the legacy fields and adds normalization helpers in the shared NetworkConfig layer. Old configs are read as initial_node_urls, while saves, runs, validation, config generation, and persisted GUI config sync still denormalize back into the current backend shape: zero initial nodes -> Standalone, one -> PublicServer, many -> Manual. This avoids any proto or backend API change while making old saved configs and imported TOML files load cleanly in the new UI.
Code changes:
- add initial_node_urls plus normalize/denormalize helpers in the shared frontend NetworkConfig model
- remove the mode switch and public-server/manual specific inputs from the shared Config component and replace them with a single initial-node list plus explanatory copy
- update Chinese and English locale strings for the new terminology
- normalize configs received from GUI/web backends and denormalize them before outbound API calls
- normalize GUI save-config events before storing them in localStorage so legacy payloads remain editable under the new model
- add lazy_p2p so nodes only start background P2P for peers that actually have recent business traffic
- add need_p2p so specific peers can still request eager background P2P even when other nodes enable lazy mode
- cover the new behavior with focused connector/peer-manager tests plus three-node integration tests that verify relay-to-direct route transition
* machine-id should be scoped unbder same user-id
* feat: report device os metadata to console
* fix sync root key cause packet loss
* fix tun packet not invalid
* fix faketcp cause lat jitter
* fix some packet not decrypt
* fix peer info patch, improve performance of update self info
* fix foreign credential identity mismatch handling
introduces support for custom credential ID generation, allowing users to specify their own credential IDs instead of relying solely on auto-generated UUIDs.
- extend web controller bindings to cover full RPC service set
- update rpc_service API wiring and session/controller integration
- generate trait-level json_call_method in rpc codegen
- route restful proxy-rpc requests via scoped typed clients
- add json-call regression tests and required Sync bound fixes~
Implement end-to-end encryption for core-web connections using the
Noise protocol framework with the following changes:
Client-side (easytier/src/web_client/):
- Add security.rs module with Noise handshake implementation
- Add upgrade_client_tunnel() for client-side handshake
- Add Noise frame encryption/decryption via TunnelFilter
- Integrate GetFeature RPC for capability negotiation
- Support secure_mode option to enforce encrypted connections
- Handle graceful fallback for backward compatibility
Server-side (easytier-web/):
- Accept Noise handshake in client_manager
- Expose encryption support via GetFeature RPC
The implementation uses Noise_NN_25519_ChaChaPoly_SHA256 pattern for
encryption without authentication. Provides backward compatibility
with automatic fallback to plaintext connections.
- improve credential peer filtering and related route lookup behavior
- expose credential peer information through CLI and API definitions
- add and refine tests for credential routing and peer interactions
- Explicitly shutdown tokio runtime on launcher cleanup to fix slow exit
- Add timeout to tunnel connector in tests to prevent hanging
- Reduce test wait durations from 5s to 100ms for faster test execution
- Bump num-bigint-dig from 0.8.4 to 0.8.6
- add credential manager and RPC/CLI for generate/list/revoke
- support credential-based Noise authentication and revocation handling
- propagate trusted credential metadata through OSPF route sync
- classify direct peers by auth level in session maintenance
- normalize sender credential flag for legacy non-secure compatibility
- add unit/integration tests for credential join, relay and revocation
Enable encryption for non-direct nodes requiring relay forwarding.
When secure_mode is enabled, peers perform Noise IK handshake to
establish an encrypted PeerSession. Relay packets are encrypted at
the sender and decrypted at the receiver. Intermediate forwarding
nodes cannot read plaintext data.
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Co-authored-by: Copilot <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: KKRainbow <5665404+KKRainbow@users.noreply.github.com>
Use noise protocol on handshake. Check peer's public key if needed. Also support rekey and replay attack prevention.
E2EE and temporary password will be implemented based on this.
support faketcp to avoid tcp-over-tcp problem.
linux/macos/windows are supported.
better to be used in internet env, the maximum
performance is majorly limited by windivert/raw socket.
KKRainbow