savoirfairelinux/opendht

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

OpenDHT is a lightweight C++17 distributed hash table (DHT) library providing an easy-to-use distributed in-memory data store with redundancy, data signing, and encryption via GnuTLS. It includes bindings for C, Rust, and Python 3, plus a REST API and CLI tools like dhtnode.

Use cases

• build a peer-to-peer distributed key-value store
• run a DHT node on a public network
• store and retrieve signed or encrypted values across a distributed network
• add decentralized data storage to a C++ or Python application
• bootstrap a lightweight P2P network for IoT or messaging apps

When to choose

• you need a lightweight, scalable distributed hash table with C++17 or Python bindings
• you want built-in public key cryptography for signed/encrypted distributed data
• you need IPv4 and IPv6 support with resilience to network disruption
• you're building peer-to-peer applications like messaging or decentralized storage

When to avoid

• you need persistent on-disk storage rather than an in-memory distributed store
• you want a managed or centralized database with strong consistency guarantees
• you need a full-featured DHT with extensive tooling outside the C++ ecosystem

Facets

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p2p cryptography networking cli http-server http-client microservices networking security developer-tools windows cpp python rust c cross-platform distributed-hash-table dht peer-to-peer gnutls rest-api jami linux macos

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