Improving distributed and secure communication using free software

Distributed and secure communication for the sake of user's privacy has never been as much needed as of now. That's why I feel a great pleasure to work on OpenDHT, a critical library used by Ring, a project soon to be imported in the debian software. This summer, thanks to the Google Summer Of Code program, I will work on developping new functionalities in OpenDHT aiming at reducing overall generated traffic, maintaining and optimizing critical parts of OpenDHT, optimizing data persistence solution on the network and use TCP protocol instead of UDP for OpenDHT.