daemonseed

About daemonseed

The idea

daemonseed is a place to talk and share files privately, without trusting a server. It is a pure-Rust successor to Demonsaw — informed by its lineage, built clean, with none of its code.

Instead of a relay in the middle, daemonseed rides Veilid's peer-to-peer, onion-routed network. Messages and files are end-to-end-encrypted with post-quantum cryptography — and there is nothing central to run, block, or compel.

How it works

daemonseed never sends your messages straight to the other person. Each of you sits at the end of your own private, encrypted path through the network — imagine a line of strangers passing a sealed package hand to hand, where every one of them knows only the neighbour they pass it to, never the whole route and never who started it.

To reach someone, your path and theirs are joined end to end. That split is the whole trick:

  • The nodes on your side can tell a message came from you — but never who receives it.
  • The nodes on the other side can tell who receives it — but never that it came from you.
  • No node is ever on both paths, so no one in the middle learns both ends of a conversation or a transfer.

Every hop is wrapped in its own layer of encryption, like nested locked boxes — one per node. A node can open only its own layer, and all it finds inside is who to hand the package to next. It never sees what is within.

This is Veilid's private routing; daemonseed stacks two such routes — one for the sender, one for the receiver — so both ends stay hidden at once. No central server ever sits in between.

Where it stands

This is early software — an alpha, for people who want to try the idea and can tolerate rough edges. It has not been independently audited. The design goal is to keep working under network conditions that break ordinary connections, and to stay private by construction rather than by policy.

Open source

  • The application is licensed AGPL-3.0-or-later.
  • The wire-format schema is dual-licensed Apache-2.0 OR MIT, so other clients can be built freely.
  • The source opens publicly once its post-quantum crypto foundation is released.

Who

Built by caraka. daemonseed is a personal, independent project.