An experimental exploration of select parts of the Willow protocol for peer-to-peer data stores. Currently, Sailce is very incomplete.
The word "sailce" means willow, in the Lojban language. Maybe this name should be changed to something less weird, but it serves as a distinct code-name for now.
This started because I wanted to explore what it's like to make a basic example application that uses the Private Area Intersection and the Encrypting. Also, I wanted to see if the PAI and Encrypting can be integrated with Iroh (which incorporates the Willow Data Model). I haven't done any of this yet.
But I have made libraries for the Data Model and the Path Encryption which are usable and might have some interesting approaches. Attempting the above will need to build on these.
The design of the APIs involves tradeoffs to support no_std usages while also supporting std
usages, and involves much generics for greater flexibility that is intended to enable other
libraries to abstract over what implements those aspects while utilizing the core concrete
functionalities that are provided, and is intended to enable an application to integrate multiple
implementations of Willow parts by wrapping their APIs in the generic APIs to unify them. It
remains to be seen how well the current design achieves these intents.
I'm unsure if I'll make much further progress or when and how long it'll take, since I'm trying to do this in my free time.