Kademlia DHT

Description

This project for the Peer-to-Peer-Systems and Security (IN2194) [TUM] is a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) implementing the Kademlia protocol. It provides a secure and efficient way to perform DHT operations. Written in Python and leveraging the Asyncio library, the system supports multi-client connections and offers robust exception handling.

Features

• Implements the Kademlia protocol
• Supports DHT operations
• Multi-client connections
• Robust exception handling

Prerequisites

Ensure that you have the following installed on your system:

• Python 3.11
• Poetry

Installation

Open your terminal and run the following command:

git clone https://github.com/SadikhovEmin/p2p-kademlia.git

Navigate to the project directory:

cd project-name

Install the required packages:

poetry install

Open shell:

poetry shell

Usage Run the bootstrap:

python main.py -a 127.0.0.1 -p 7401

Run the peer:

python main.py -a 127.0.0.1 -p 7402 --bootstrap

Tests

To run the test suite, execute:

pytest test/

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

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For more details, please refer to the project's documentation.