Clustering

Functional goals:

• Given a list of IP addresses, maintain communicative cluster capable of sending and receiving messages between members
• Maximize ability to maintain cluster with various commonplace network conditions:
  • dynamic IP address
  • periodic temporary connection loss
  • long term connection loss
  • hardware failure
• Ensure attack surface is minimized to third parties
  • nodes must allow connection from the internet due to changing IP addresses
  • randomly calculated rendezvous windows