Basic Networking - Part 2

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Overview

The focus on this issue is to enable secure connections to endpoints using PeerIDs, and securing the connection using the corresponding public key

Expected Outcome

• Initiate a connection to a target host specified by multiaddr + peerid
• If target host does not have the specified peerid, disconnect
• Hosts will use public key cryptography to secure the connections, by using the public key that corresponds to the peerid
  • this means we need a method of testing that the target has the public key, by using a signed message or something similar
  • we need to securely exchange keys, and also make sure that the verification that the target peer has the key
    • we can proibably do this by message verification using a protocol handler + timestamp to act as a "nonce" preventing signed message reuse
• Change the multiaddr protocol /ipfs to /p2p